Reassembling the Social An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

Name: Reassembling the Social An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
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ISBN: 9780199256051

ISBN-10: 0199256055

ISBN-13: 9780199256051

Edition: 2007

Authors: Bruno Latour

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Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'. Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stablilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. But Latour also finds the word used as if it described a type of material, in a comparable way to an adjective such as 'wooden' or 'steely'. Rather than simply indicating what is already assembled together,…

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List price: $38.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/25/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 1.254

Bruno Latour is Professor and Vice-President for Research at the Sciences Po, Paris.



Acknowledgements


Introduction: How to Resume the Task of Tracing Associations



How to Deploy Controversies About the Social World



Learning to Feed off Controversies


First Source of Uncertainty: No Group, Only Group Formation


Second Source of Uncertainty: Action Is Overtaken


Third Source of Uncertainty: Objects too Have Agency


Fourth Source of Uncertainty: Matters of Fact vs. Matters of Concern


Fifth Source of Uncertainty: Writing Down Risky Accounts


On the Difficulty of Being an ANT: An Interlude in the Form of a Dialog



How to Render Associations Traceable Again



Why is it so Difficult to Trace the Social?


How to Keep the Social Flat


First Move: Localizing the Global


Second Move: Redistributing the Local


Third Move: Connecting Sites


Conclusion: From Society to Collective-Can the Social Be Reassembled?


Bibliography


Index