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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Latour, Bruno.

Series:

Clarendon lectures in management studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Social sciences--Philosophy.

Social sciences.

Social groups.

Social participation.

Social structure.

Organizational behavior.

Local Subjects:

Social groups.

Social participation.

Social structure.

Organizational behavior.

Physical Description:

x, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

French sociologist Bruno Latour has previously written about the relationship between people, science and technology. In this book he sets out his own ideas about 'actor network theory' and its relevance to management and organisation theory.

Contents:

pt. 1. 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.

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

From society to collective

can the social be reassembled?

Notes:

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.

ISBN:

9780199256051

0199256055

9780199256044

0199256047

OCLC:

137312959

Publisher Number:

9780199256051