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Technology is Society Made Durable
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Is it possible to devise a set of concepts that could replace the technology/society divide? This set of new concepts - association and substitution - might help to rephrase some of the traditional questions of social order and especially that of the durability of domination of power. However, instead of using different tools to analyse power and weakness, it is argued that power and domination are simply different values of variables that should be studied in their whole range. By reconstructing networks it is argued that a full description of power and domination may be obtained.
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- Authors
- Latour, B.
- Venue
- The Sociological Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 1990-05
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 1_suppl
- Pages
- 103-131
- ISSN
- 0038-0261 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-954X
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- W2008934558
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- 2,143
- References
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- 7.78
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- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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