Actor–network theory (ANT) is a theoretical and methodological approach to social theory where everything in the social and natural worlds exists in constantly...
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and network science, network theory is a part of graph theory. It defines networks as graphs where the vertices or edges possess attributes. Network theory...
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A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social...
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Design studies (section Actor-network theory)
artificial. Latour's concept of actor–network theory (ANT) portrays the social as an interdependent network of human individual actors and non-human, non-individual...
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Diffusion of innovations (redirect from Diffusion of innovations theory)
Actor-Network Theory: A Bureaucratic View of Public Service Innovation, Chapter 7, Technological Advancements and the Impact of Actor-Network Theory,...
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Social network analysis (SNA) is the process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory. It characterizes networked structures...
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thriller A Screen Actors Guild Award, also known as the Actor Actants, also called "actors", in actor-network theory (a general theory of sociological behaviour)...
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John Law (sociologist) (category Actor-network theory)
term Actor-Network Theory (ANT) in 1992 when synthesising work done with colleagues at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation. Actor-network theory, sometimes...
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Problematization (category Postmodern theory)
term also had a different meaning when used in association with actor–network theory (ANT), and especially the "sociology of translation" to describe...
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The Thing in Thing Theory is conceptually like Jacques Lacan's Real; Felluga states that it is influenced by Actor-network theory and the work of Bruno...
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outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to critical theory: Critical theory – the examination and critique of society and culture, drawing...
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Wajcman (1985). Actor-network theory (ANT) is about a heterogeneous network of humans and even non-humans as equal interrelated actors. It strives for...
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Actant (redirect from Actor (sociology))
characters have in advancing a narrative. Bruno Latour writes, An “actor” in [actor-network theory] is a semiotic definition -an actant-, that is, something that...
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theory, reflexivity may occur when theories in a discipline should apply equally to the discipline itself; for example, in the case that the theories...
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connections between the elements or actors as links (or edges). The field draws on theories and methods including graph theory from mathematics, statistical...
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Bruno Latour (category Actor-network theory)
Akrich, and John Law, Latour is one of the primary developers of actor–network theory (ANT), a constructionist approach influenced by the ethnomethodology...
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Economic anthropology (section Actor-Network theory)
[citation needed] Michel Callon has spearheaded the movement of applying Actor–network theory approaches to study economic life (notably economic markets). This...
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Cyborg anthropology (category Actor-network theory)
by material and technological conditions. Actor-network theory (ANT), proposed by Bruno Latour, is a theory that helps scholars understand how these elements...
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Practice theory (or praxeology, theory of social practices) is a body of social theory within anthropology and sociology that explains society and culture...
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Assemblage (philosophy) (category Philosophical theories)
DeLanda in work on assemblage theory. Another is associated to the work of Bruno Latour and Michel Callon on Actor-network theory. A third draws from Gilles...
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these sociologists. SSK has received criticism from theorists of the actor-network theory (ANT) school of science and technology studies. These theorists criticise...
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dictionary. Dolwick, JS. 2009. The 'Social' and Beyond: Introducing Actor Network Theory, article examining different meanings of the concept 'social'...
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Michel Callon (category Actor-network theory)
Science and Technology Studies and one of the leading proponents of actor–network theory (ANT) with Bruno Latour. Since the late 1990s, Michel Callon has...
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Janice Gurney (section Actor-Network-Theory)
intentions. The actor-network-theory (ANT) is a social methodology that suggests everything in the natural and social worlds exist in networks which are in...
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social construction of technology framework and Callon and Latour's actor-network theory. These have a common feature of criticism of the linear model of...
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Ethnicity (redirect from Ethnicity theory)
dispositions of ethnic prejudice, which relates to the theory of ethnocentrism. Continuing with Noel's theory, some degree of differential power must be present...
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Outline of anthropology (section Theories)
and postcolonialism Socialization Actor–network theory – theoretical and methodological approach to social theory where everything in the social and...
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black box is also important in actor–network theory as it relates to simplification. As Michel Callon notes, an actor-network is a system of discrete entities...
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Social objects (category Network theory)
Actor-network theory has developed this concept as the object around which social networks form. This version was applied to social media networks by...
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Alliance theory, also known as the general theory of exchanges, is a structuralist method of studying kinship relations. It finds its origins in Claude...
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