John Law (sociologist)
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John Law | |
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| Born | 16 May 1946 |
| Awards | The Social Construction of Technological Systems) |
| Notable ideas | Heterogeneous engineering |
| Website | http://heterogeneities.net/ |
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A director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change | |
John Law (born 16 May 1946),
Actor-network theory
Actor-network theory, sometimes abbreviated to ANT, is a social science approach for describing and explaining social, organisational, scientific and technological structures, processes and events. It assumes that all the components of such structures (whether these are human or otherwise) form a network of relations that can be mapped and described in the same terms or vocabulary.
Developed by STS scholars Michel Callon, Madeleine Akrich and Bruno Latour, Law himself, and others, ANT may alternatively be described as a 'material-semiotic' method. ANT strives to map relations that are simultaneously material (between things) and 'semiotic' (between concepts), for instance, the interactions in a bank involve both people and their ideas, and computers. Together these form a single network.
Professor John Law was one of the directors of the
Bibliography
Authored
- Law, John; Lodge, Peter (1984). Science for social scientists. London: Macmillan Press. OCLC 20492048.
- Law, John (1994). Organizing modernity: social ordering and social theory. Oxford, UK Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: Blackwell. OCLC 901782885.
- Law, John (2002). Aircraft stories: decentering the object in technoscience. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. OCLC 231972039.
- Law, John (2004). After method: mess in social science research. London New York: Routledge. OCLC 989163983.
- Bowman, Andrew; Ertürk, Ismail; Froud, Julie; Johal, Sukhdev; Law, John; Lever, Adam; Moran, Michael; Williams, Karel (2014). The end of the experiment? Reframing the foundational economy. Manchester: Manchester University Press. OCLC 934513178.
Edited
- Law, John; OCLC 254959355.
- Law, John, ed. (1986). Power, action, and belief: a new sociology of knowledge. London Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. OCLC 901422036.
- Fyfe, Gordon; Law, John, eds. (1988). Picturing power: visual depiction and social relations. London: Routledge. OCLC 802667909.
- Law, John, ed. (1991). A sociology of monsters: essays on power, technology, and domination. London New York: Routledge. OCLC 902188595.
- OCLC 838028387.
- Brenna, Brita; Law, John; Moser, Ingunn, eds. (1998). Machines, agency and desire. Oslo: Center for Technology and Culture. OCLC 807626021.
- Law, John; Hassard, John, eds. (1999). Actor network theory and after. Oxford England Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell/Sociological Review. OCLC 939893096.
- Law, John; OCLC 751357043.
- Law, John; Ruppert, Evelyn, eds. (2016). Modes of knowing: resources from the Baroque. Manchester: Mattering Press. OCLC 989957904.
See also
- Actor-network theory
- Bruno Latour
- Michel Callon
- Annemarie Mol
References
- ^ "Law, John, 1946-". Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
data sheet (b. 5/16/46)
- ISSN 0306-3127.
It was John Law who, from an inside-outside position, did an important job of synthesizing all the work developed at the CSI at the time taking up the term ANT (Law, 1992), a term whose origin is difficult to trace but which stems from the 'actor-network' used by Michel Callon in his analysis of the electric vehicle.
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