• Actornetwork 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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    network science, network theory is a part of graph theory. It defines networks as graphs where the nodes or edges possess attributes. Network theory analyses...
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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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    artificial. Latour's concept of actornetwork theory (ANT) portrays the social as an interdependent network of human individual actors and non-human, non-individual...
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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Problematization (category Postmodern theory)
    term also had a different meaning when used in association with actornetwork theory (ANT), and especially the "sociology of translation" to describe...
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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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  • postcolonialism Socialization Actornetwork theory Alliance theory Cross-cultural studies Cultural materialism Culture theory Feminism Functionalism Interpretive...
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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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    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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    Bruno Latour (category Actor-network theory)
    Akrich, and John Law, Latour is one of the primary developers of actornetwork theory (ANT), a constructionist approach influenced by the ethnomethodology...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • [citation needed] Michel Callon has spearheaded the movement of applying Actornetwork theory approaches to study economic life (notably economic markets). This...
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  • black box is also important in actornetwork theory as it relates to simplification. As Michel Callon notes, an actor-network is a system of discrete entities...
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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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    the sociology of scientific knowledge, and its subtopics include actor-network theory (a branch of the sociology of science and technology) and historical...
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  • geopolitics", and the so-called "new materialism" (partly inspired by actornetwork theory). All of these latter approaches differ from both realism and liberalism...
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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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  • Michel Callon (category Actor-network theory)
    Science and Technology Studies and one of the leading proponents of actornetwork theory (ANT) with Bruno Latour. Since the late 1990s, Michel Callon has...
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  • Helen Verran (category Actor-network theory)
    Studies’ Analytics of Numbers and Numbering). She contributed to actor-network theory, working with British sociologist John Law. Specifically, she is...
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  • Translation (sociology) (category Actor-network theory)
    In actor-network theory (ANT), translation is the process that allows a network to be represented by a single entity, which can in itself be an individual...
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    Social construction of technology Actornetwork theory Systems theory Normalization process theory Quasi-evolutionary theories Innovation system Technological...
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