Must the Social be Reassembled? Broken Dispute between B. Latour and P. Bourdieu
Open Access
- 30 December 2020
- journal article
- Published by Vilnius University Press in Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas
- Vol. 47 (2), 36-50
- https://doi.org/10.15388/socmintvei.2020.2.26
Abstract
The article analyses the conflict between two prominent French sociologists P. Bourdieu and B. Latour. It attempts to answer a question to what extent this conflict reflects the paradigmatic break of sociology. The study of the conflict concludes with the statement that the attempts of B. Latour and his allies to “reassemble the social” and institutionalize Actor-Network-Theory resulted in the critical movement of the Science Technology Studies (STS). However, STS does not succeed to become the paradigmatic break of the path of sociology.Keywords
This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
- On the Attempt to Unlock the Black Boxes of Science (1)Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas, 2018
- Žinojimo sociologijos tyrimo projektas kaip sociologijos didaktikos eksperimentasSociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas, 2016
- On Sociology and STSSociological Review, 2008
- Sociological Discourse of the Relational: The Cases of Bourdieu & LatourSociological Review, 2007
- Please Try, ‘Latour 1991’Sociologija. Mintis ir veiksmas, 2004
- The ‘Righteous Wrath’ of Pierre BourdieuSocial Studies of Science, 2003
- UnderstandingTheory, Culture & Society, 1996
- The Craft of SociologyPublished by Walter de Gruyter GmbH ,1991
- Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc BaySociological Review, 1984
- The specificity of the scientific field and the social conditions of the progress of reasonSocial Science Information, 1975