GGRC24H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Theory, Intentionality, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Ggrc24 lecture 3 - actor-network theory and the non-human. The modern constitution" informs popular and scientific understandings of nature. Separation of nature and society occludes the networks of connections". It obscures the ways in which we cross this boundary. Social theory is still largely trapped in the methods and divisions of labor of the nineteenth century (mitchell). Humans are the agents around whose actions and intentions the story is written. This is necessarily the case, for it is the intentionality or rationality of human agents that gives the explanation its logic and enables particular cases to fit as instances of something general (mitchell). The key lesson from ant is that what we typically see as the social" is constituted by relations among humans and non-humans, and that the divide between the natural and social sciences should be broken down (bosco). Actor-network theory: is an analytical approach that takes the world to be composed of associations of heterogeneous elements.
