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Reassembling the social : an introduction to actor-network-theory. Bruno Latour.

By: Latour, BrunoContributor(s): Bruno LatourMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: Raghav Books Private Ltd. | A-184 A, Nand Gram, GhaziabadPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press , 2005Description: x, 301 pages : illustrations :24cmISBN: 9780199256051Subject(s): Actor-network theoryGenre/Form: Sociology -- Philosophy.DDC classification: 302.3 LAB

Contents:

Introduction: How to resume the task of tracing associations -- pt. 1. How to deploy controversies about the social world. Learning to feed from 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 form of a dialog -- pt. 2. 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?

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Introduction: How to resume the task of tracing associations --
pt. 1. How to deploy controversies about the social world. Learning to feed from 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 form of a dialog --
pt. 2. 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?

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