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Actor-Network Theory: Bruno Latour, Actant, Michel Callon, John Law, Aramis, or the Love of Technology, Annemarie Mol, Helen Verran
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-25.
ISBN 9781156893791
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bruno Latour, Actant, Michel Callon, John Law, Aramis, or the Love of Technology, Annemarie Mol, Helen Verran, Centre de Sociologie de L'innovation, Obligatory Passage Point. Excerpt: Positivism · AntipositivismFunctionalism · Conflict theoryMiddle-range · Formal theoryCritical theory · SocializationStructure and agency Actor-network theory, often abbreviated as ANT, is a distinctive approach to social theory and research which originated in the field of science studies. Although it is best known for its controversial insistence on the agency of nonhumans, ANT is also associated with forceful critiques of conventional and critical sociology. Developed by Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholars Michel Callon and Bruno Latour, the sociologist John Law, and others, it can more technically be described as a materialsemiotic method. This means that it maps relations that are simultaneously material (between things) and semiotic (between concepts). It assumes that many relations are both material and semiotic. For example, the interactions in a bank involve both people, their ideas, and technologies. Together these form a single network. Actor-network theory tries to explain how materialsemiotic networks come together to act as a whole (for example, a bank is both a network and an actor that hangs together, and for certain purposes acts as a single entity). As a part of this it may look at explicit strategies for relating different elements together into a network so that they form an apparently coherent whole. According to actor-network theory, such actor-networks are potentially transient, existing in a constant making and re-making . This means that relations need to be repeatedly performed or the network will dissolve. (The bank clerks n... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=505093
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