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The Mangle of Practice: Agency and Emergence in the Sociology of Science

Pickering, Andrew·1993·American Journal of Sociology

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Some difficult but important issues have arisen in recent social studies of science concerning temporally emergent phenomena and the decetering of the human subject in scientific practice. This essay seeks a constructive clarification of the issues, and links them together, by delineating and exemplifying a view of science as a field of emergent human and material agency reciprocally engaged by means of a dialectic of resistence and accommodation-the mangle.

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Authors
Pickering, A.
Venue
American Journal of Sociology
Published
1993-11
Volume
99
Issue
3
Pages
559-589
ISSN
  • 0002-9602 (ISSN-L)
  • 1537-5390
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W2062781769
Cited by
759
References
1
FWCI
48.28
Type
journal article
Language
en
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