Reassembling the social [Elektronisk resurs] : an introduction to actor-network-theory

Böcker. Oxford : Oxford University Press, UK. 2005.

Latour is a world famous and widely published French sociologist who has written with great eloquence and perception about the relationship between people, science, and technology. He is also closely associated with the school of thought known as Actor Network Theory. In this book he sets out for the first time in one place his own ideas about Actor Network Theory and its relevance to management and organization theory. - ;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
Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: How to Resume the Task of Tracing Associations; Part I: How to Deploy Controversies About the Social World; Introduction to Part I: 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
Part II: How to Render Associations Traceable AgainIntroduction to Part II: 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y;
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