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Reassembling the social : an introduction to actor-network-theory / Bruno Latour.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Latour, Bruno, author.
- Series:
- Clarendon lectures in management studies.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Clarendon lectures in management studies
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social groups.
- Social participation.
- Social structure.
- Organizational behavior.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- 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:
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- 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 Again
- Introduction 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 BeReassembled?
- Bibliography
- Index
- Footnotes.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781383039658
- 1383039658
- 9780191531262
- 019153126X
- 9781435609983
- 1435609980
- 9781280905162
- 1280905166
- 9780191622892
- 0191622893
- OCLC:
- 1156912903
- Publisher Number:
- 9780199256044 (hbk.)
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