Oxford University Press, Date: 2007-10-25. First Edition. paperback. Used: Good. 2007. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199256055 9780199256051 [US]

ISBN10: 0199256055, ISBN13: 9780199256051, [publisher: Oxford University Press Sep 2007] Softcover Neuware - Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'.Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stablilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. But Latour also finds the word used as if it described a type of material, in a comparable way to an adjective such as 'wooden' or 'steely'. Rather thansimply indicating what is already assembled together, it is now used in a way that makes assumptions about the nature of what is assembled. It has become a word that designates two distinct things: a process of assembling; and a type of material, distinct from others.Latour shows why 'the social' cannot be thought of as a kind of material or domain, and disputes attempts to provide a 'social explanations' of other states of affairs. While these attempts have been productive (and probably necessary) in the past, the very success of the social sciences mean that they are largely no longer so. At the present stage it is no longer possible to inspect the precise ...
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ISBN10: 0199256055, ISBN13: 9780199256051, [publisher: Oxford University Press Sep 2007] Softcover Neuware - Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world's leading social theorists to how we understand society and the 'social'.Bruno Latour's contention is that the word 'social', as used by Social Scientists, has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stablilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. But Latour also finds the word used as if it described a type of material, in a comparable way to an adjective such as 'wooden' or 'steely'. Rather thansimply indicating what is already assembled together, it is now used in a way that makes assumptions about the nature of what is assembled. It has become a word that designates two distinct things: a process of assembling; and a type of material, distinct from others.Latour shows why 'the social' cannot be thought of as a kind of material or domain, and disputes attempts to provide a 'social explanations' of other states of affairs. While these attempts have been productive (and probably necessary) in the past, the very success of the social sciences mean that they are largely no longer so. At the present stage it is no longer possible to inspect the precise ...
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Oxford Univ Pr 2007 Softcover New 301 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

Oxford University Press, Date: 2007-10-25. First Edition. paperback. Used:Good. 2007. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199256055 9780199256051 [US]

Oxford Univ Pr, Date: 2007. Paperback. New. 301 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. 2007. Oxford Univ Pr ISBN 0199256055 9780199256051 [GB]

ISBN10: 0199256055, ISBN13: 9780199256051, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover 2007. New Ed. Paperback. Latour is a world famous and widely published French sociologist known for his acclaimed writings on the relationship between people, science, and technology. His views have crystallized as 'Actor-Network-Theory' (ANT). This book is the first concise account Latour has written about ANT, with which he has come to be so closely associated with. Series: Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 16. Weight in Grams: 482. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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ISBN10: 0199256055, ISBN13: 9780199256051, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA] Softcover
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