About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780199256051ISBN:0199256055
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 234x156 mm. (312) latour is a world famous and widely published french sociologist known for his acclaimed writings on the relationsh1p between people, science, and technology. his views have crystallized as 'actor-*n*e*t*work-theory' (ant). this book is the first concise account latour has written about ant, with which he has come to be so closely associated with. (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780199256044ISBN:0199256047
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 312 pages. This book is printed on demand (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) talks about the relationsh1p between people, science, and technology. here, the author, who is a world famous french sociologist, sets out his own ideas about actor *n*e*t*work theory and its relevance to management and organization theory. he contends that the word 'social', has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. 1 b/w line illustration, 8 half tones (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780199256044ISBN:0199256047
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 234x156 mm. This book is printed on demand. (allow 1-2 weeks for printing) (312) latour is a world famous and widely published french sociologist who has written with great eloquence and perception about the relationsh1p between people, science, and technology. he is also closely associated with the school of thought known as actor *n*e*t*work theory. in this book he sets out for the first time in one place his own ideas about actor *n*e*t*work theory and its relevance to ... read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9780199256051ISBN:0199256055
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN-13:9780199256051ISBN:0199256055
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"Sure, he is writing in the needlessly crazy French academic style, but it is well worth it if only for gems like "the social does not explain, the social must be explained.""
"I'm not yet sure that I can adequately evaluate actor-network-theory (ANT), though at this point, I definitely find it appealing. I took a fieldwork methods course last quarter, and kept raising questions about how to incorporate material objects into ethnographic work, but no one really had any good ideas about it. Latour helps illustrate one way in which we can create a social science that is able to account for the very real experience we have of physical, non-human objects shaping us and the way we interact with other humans. ANT also helps develop a vocabulary that recognizes the 'social construction' of things without denying them their 'objectivity,' as well as a theory of action and agency that navigates the pitfalls of both material and social determinism, without banishing either from the realm of that which must be accounted for in social-scientific descriptions of the world. Latour's wit and humor also made this an enjoyable read, which was quite a feat, I think, for a treatise on social theory and method."
"Wahhoo. Finished at last. The most readable of the Latour books this semester. Or is it that I have actually learned something by struggling through all the other texts, articles, the Heiddegger, et al? Nah, it really is easier than the others.
Seriously, I think this one is the one to start with, especially if one is *not* trained in the social sciences or are not completely aware of the factions within different disciplines in anthropology or sociology. (Some awareness of the Science wars, of course, just makes this more compelling reading.)
ANT is truly awesome, and something that I think many people (particularly designers) are beginning to do instinctively. I look forward to uncovering more about material cultures (studies in) and how this all intersects/interacts.."
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