Why do we have to turn on this washing machine? The processes of domesticating household technology – situations of resistance

Abstract

The moment she telling me uses more water – put machine – I And I machine of and on an analysis of and individual with five sources of resistance to new domestic identified: (1) disruption of “flow” (Csikszentmihalyi – the pleasure resulting from a habitual and automatic action, the synchronization between the and its material surroundings; (2) disruption of the order of things” (the “mental map,” – a sense of durability or resulting the stability of the and material arrangement of (a sense that everything (3) differences of standards and cultural ideals regarding acceptable practices, the quality of and their effect; (4) possible disturbance in relationships between members of the household; (5) beliefs about what is moral, or correct, as well as dissonances between different pieces of knowledge and beliefs, and between an opinion or belief and an embodied practice.