Latour’s Actor-Network Theory (ANT) builds a bridge between philosophy and anthropology, (re)defining sociology as a science that ‘traces associations’ between human and non-human, natural and artificial elements. This approach displays a ‘constructivist’ orientation that might apparently bring it closer to earlier authors. But it is a ‘non social’ constructivism (Latour, 2022: 81) that reassembles the social sciences in an original way. His attempt to overthrow - or, as he declares, eliminate - the ‘Sociology of the Social’ represents a paradigmatic shift, but it is also characterized by aporias on the theoretical level and difficulties of application and interpretation on the methodological level pointed out by other scholars of his same intellectual stature
Il costruttivismo (as)sociologico ma “non sociale” di Latour
Simone D'Alessandro
2024-01-01
Abstract
Latour’s Actor-Network Theory (ANT) builds a bridge between philosophy and anthropology, (re)defining sociology as a science that ‘traces associations’ between human and non-human, natural and artificial elements. This approach displays a ‘constructivist’ orientation that might apparently bring it closer to earlier authors. But it is a ‘non social’ constructivism (Latour, 2022: 81) that reassembles the social sciences in an original way. His attempt to overthrow - or, as he declares, eliminate - the ‘Sociology of the Social’ represents a paradigmatic shift, but it is also characterized by aporias on the theoretical level and difficulties of application and interpretation on the methodological level pointed out by other scholars of his same intellectual statureI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
