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...
圖書標籤: 社會學 Latour ANT 社會理論 人類學 BrunoLatour STS sociology
'[one] should not confuse the network that is drawn by the description and the network that is used to make the description'
評分ANT. quite revolutionary
評分一本很係統的ANT理論介紹。看完瞭它以後我也終於明白瞭Latour理論的緣起,主要觀點,和其他各種社會學理論的關係,以及理論背後的 political project。我完全不能認同他對於其他社會學理論流派膚淺的概括,並且認為他誇大瞭自己的理論對於社會學研究的貢獻。當然,貢獻可能也是有一些的,但如果他能夠以更為謙虛的態度去engage當下的經驗研究,並且用更為平實的語言進行寫作,那將會更方便讀者將他理論中的洞見挖掘齣來。
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。
評分很多點子其實很不錯但也很堂吉訶德,而且作者有時候把簡單的事說復雜瞭。
Reassembling the Social 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載