SOC 880 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Actant, Dominant Ideology, Woodworking
13 Oct 2018
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Can emerge in a variety of forms ranging from human beings to concepts or. Actor-network theory(ant) ideas, technologies, institutions, and so forth. Action is distributed among multiple human and nonhuman actors called actants. Symmetry: human and non-human action is considered equally. : economic system that came to prominence in europe between the 16th and. 18th centuries and is based on private ownership and the production of commodities for sale. : examines how power is distributed in society and how leading institutions serve to perpetuate their dominance. Has an active political orientation and is focused on changing the social order in some way. Served to make the existing class structure appear to be the natural order of things and the final endpoint of social and historical progress after which no further development was conceivable. Since technologies develop and become diffused in political-economic contexts, technologies may reinforce or disrupt the dominant ideologies of their time. function.
