Reassembling the social : an introduction to actor-network-theory
Series: Clarendon lectures in management studiesPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.Description: x, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780199256051
- 0199256055
- 9780199256044
- 0199256047
- HM585
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | HM 585 LAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 0016724 |
Originally published: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-280) and index.
Introduction: How to Resume the Task of Tracing Associations -- Part I. How to Deploy Controversies About the Social World -- 1. Learning to Feed from Controversies -- 2. First Source of Uncertainty: No Group, Only Group Formation -- 3. Second Source of Uncertainty: Action is Overtaken -- 4. Third Source of Uncertainty: Objects Too Have Agency -- 5. Fourth Source of Uncertainty: Matters of Fact vs. Matters of Concern -- 6. Fifth Source of Uncertainty: Writing Down Risky Accounts -- 7. On the Difficulty of Being an ANT -- An Interlude in Form of a Dialog -- Part II. How to Render Associations Traceable Again -- 8. Why is it So Difficult to Trace the Social? -- 9. How to Keep the Social Flat -- 10. First Move: Localizing the Global -- 11. Second Move: Redistributing the Local -- 12. Third Move: Connecting Sites -- 13. Conclusion: From Society to Collective -- Can the Social be Reassembled?
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.