Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

by Bruno Latour

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199256047
• ISBN13: 9780199256044
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Latour revolutionizes sociology

Latour puts into simple practical terms what Deleuze did with rhizomes and Foucault did with Nietzdchean overdetermination. Not everything Latour says is immediately agreeable, but his reimagining of sociology is inspiring and goal-reorienting, to say the least.