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

Main entry:

Latour, Bruno.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Description:

x, 301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Series:

Clarendon lectures in management studies

Notes:
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?

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.

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ISBN:

9780199256051 (pbk.)
0199256055 (pbk.)
9780199256044
0199256047

Subject:

Sociology Philosophy.
Social sciences Philosophy.
Social groups.
Social participation.
Social structure.
Organizational behavior.
Social Participation
Sociologie Philosophie.
Sciences sociales Philosophie.
Participation sociale.
Structure sociale.
Comportement organisationnel.
social structure.
Akteur
Gruppe
Netzwerk
Organisationsverhalten
Partizipation
Soziales Netzwerk
Sozialstruktur
Soziologische Theorie
Sociala strukturer.
Sociologisk teori.

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Clarendon lectures in management studies.

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Call No.: BIB 229739
Status: Available

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