SOCIOLOGY WITHOUT OBJECT - NOTES ON INTER OBJECTIVITY

Authors
Citation
B. Latour, SOCIOLOGY WITHOUT OBJECT - NOTES ON INTER OBJECTIVITY, Sociologie du travail, 36(4), 1994, pp. 587-607
Citations number
32
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology
Journal title
ISSN journal
00380296
Volume
36
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
587 - 607
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-0296(1994)36:4<587:SWO-NO>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
Provocative for sociologists as well as specialists in cognitive scien ce and even primatology, this theorical essay aims at reversing inters ubjectivity and interobjectivity. This raises questions about well-est ablished paradigmas in sociology, ethnomethodology and anthropology. T hus emerges a new conception of actors and their actions, one that tak es into account human as well as nonhuman agents and reassigns objects a status as social actors in a ''framed interaction'', which distingu ishes us from the apes. This caustic, innovative text asks thought-pro voking questions.