SOCY 284 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intentionality, Assistive Technology, Technoscience

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 284
• Professor: Norma Mollers

Document Summary

Actor-network theory: ant as general social theory, ant as theory of techno-science, ant: technology as social force/materiality (thursday, ant: technology as social force?scripts and user con guration (next week) Etho - members of the group, methodology - their modes of ordering. Study of the ways in witch people (re)produce social order - micro-level. Social order cannot be taken for granted - assumption of chaos. Emphasis on people"s agency, complexity of ordering processes, (artfulness of) practices - social orders achieved, accomplished. General social theory entered on techno-science, rather than theory of science and technology. Most important contribution to social theory: reframing the roles of nonhumans in social processes. We can"t understand society without understanding nonhumans . Elements made to acts: associated/drawn together in a way that an effect is produced. Durability depends on the durability of the bonds. Not about the elements, but about the associations which hold them together in practice.