Third Source of Uncertainty
Objects too Have Agency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20089588 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bruno Latour (0000-0003-4557-174X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 63-86 |
| Publication date | 2005-07-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | REASSEMBLING THE SOCIAL: AN INTRODUCTION TO ACTOR-NETWORK-THEORY. (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oso/9780199256044.003.0005 |
| OpenAlex | W4388174198 |
| ISBN | 9780199256044 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
If sociology has been marked from the start by the discovery that action was overtaken by other agencies, it has been spurred even more forcefully by the ethical, political, and empirical discovery that there exist hierarchies, asymmetries, and inequalities; that the social world is just as differentiated a landscape as a rugged and mountainous terrain; that no amount of enthusiasm, free will, or ingenuity can make those asymmetries go away; that they all seem to weigh as heavily as the pyramids, which hampers individual action and explains why society should be considered as a specific sui generis entity; that any thinker who denies those inequalities and differences is either gullible or somewhat reactionary; and, finally, that ignoring social asymmetry is as ridiculous as claiming that Newtonian gravitation does not exist
Allegation · Enthusiasm · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ingenuity · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Reactionary · Ridiculous · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |