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Subject(s)

• Sociology—Philosophy [Browse]
• Action theory [Browse]
• Act (Philosophy) [Browse]
• Social networks [Browse]
• Actor-network theory [Browse]

Related name

• Law, John, 1946- [Browse]
• Hassard, John, 1953- [Browse]

Series

• Sociological review monograph [More in this series]
• The Sociological review monographs

Summary note

"Actor-Network Theory is one of the most influential approaches to social theory to have emerged in recent years. Combining post-structuralist insights with robustly empirical studies of subjectivities, technologies, organisations, power, and social ordering, it has challenged and helped to set intellectual agendas not only in sociology and technoscience studies, but also in anthropology, economics, feminism, geography, philosophy and organisation studies."--BOOK JACKET. "But what are its strengths and its weaknesses? And what are its prospects? This major reference volume explores ANT's achievements, and looks to a future in which many of its lessons are being assimilated by other disciplines."--Jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• After ANT; complexity, naming and topology / John Law
• On recalling ANT / Bruno Latour
• Perpetuum mobile: substance, force and the sociology of translation / Steven D. Brown and Rose Capdevila
• From blindness to blindness: museums, heterogeneity and the subject / Devin Hetherington
• Ontological politics. A word and some questions / Annemarie Mol
• Who pays? Can we pay them back? / Nick Lee and Paul Stenner
• Materiality: juggling sameness and difference / Anni Dugdale
• Staying true to the laughter in Nigerian classrooms / Helen Verran
• What is intellectual property after? / Marilyn Strathern
• Actor-network theory-the market test / Michel Callon
• Good passages, bad passages / Ingunn Moser and John Law
• A sociology of attachment: music amateurs, drug user / Emilie Gomart and Antoine Hennion.

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ISBN

• 0631211942 ((acid-free paper))
• 9780631211945 ((acid-free paper))

LCCN

99021566

OCLC

41017407

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