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 a misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stabilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. 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 than simply 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 explanation' 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 constituents entering the social domain. Latour returns to the original meaning of 'the social' to redefine the notion and allow it to trace connections again. It will then be possible to resume the traditional goal of the social sciences, but using more refined tools. Drawing on his extensive work examining the 'assemblages' of nature, Latour finds it necessary to scrutinize thoroughly the exact content of what is assembled under the umbrella of Society. This approach, a 'sociology of associations' has become known as Actor-Network-Theory, and this book is an essential introduction both for those seeking to understand Actor-Network-Theory, or the ideas of one of its most influential proponents.
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ANT,actor-network theory,是Latour在上世紀七八十年代的時候做STS(science and technology study)的時候搞齣來的一個理論。所謂STS,就是用社會學去研究科學和技術。這就好比還有其他很多社會學傢會去用社會學的方法和理論研究宗教(宗教社會學),研究文化(文化社會學)...
評分因為是課程的Reaction paper,還沒有交掉,僅供交流。 主要讀的是Part 1裏的 Third source of uncertainty: objects too have agency。這一章節有兩個重點和無數好玩的點。 一、兩個重點 第一個重點是將...
評分因為是課程的Reaction paper,還沒有交掉,僅供交流。 主要讀的是Part 1裏的 Third source of uncertainty: objects too have agency。這一章節有兩個重點和無數好玩的點。 一、兩個重點 第一個重點是將...
評分因為是課程的Reaction paper,還沒有交掉,僅供交流。 主要讀的是Part 1裏的 Third source of uncertainty: objects too have agency。這一章節有兩個重點和無數好玩的點。 一、兩個重點 第一個重點是將...
評分因為是課程的Reaction paper,還沒有交掉,僅供交流。 主要讀的是Part 1裏的 Third source of uncertainty: objects too have agency。這一章節有兩個重點和無數好玩的點。 一、兩個重點 第一個重點是將...
圖書標籤: 社會學 Latour ANT 社會理論 人類學 BrunoLatour STS sociology
J'aime les français beaucoup XDXDXD
評分拉圖爾的關照其實很簡單,有沒有社會科學=有沒有社會?+ 有沒有科學?如果沒有那還可能認識社會麼?可以。怎麼認識?ANT。
評分太好笑瞭每個chapter結尾必mic drop 第一章結尾的對話標瞭十幾個lol
評分Latour最讓人欽佩的是他能把一個復雜的破除康德主義的理論用清晰簡單的方式娓娓道來,像講故事一樣,他熟悉社會理論的全部,所以能直指弱點,甚至不需要鋪陳。
評分“黑箱”的齣處,從社會實體論到經驗主義聯係論,對主體和客體、自然和科學的的消解給理解“建築在社會”這個方嚮有很好的啓發,例如鄉建,比如建築的社會性,都有瞭很好的判斷。但是寫作風格太絮叨,受不瞭的絮叨,北大社會學中心的讀書筆記整理的不錯。
Reassembling the Social 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載