Unscrewing the Big Leviathan; or How Actors Macrostructure Reality, and How Sociologists Help Them To Do So?

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Unscrewing the Big Leviathan; or How Actors Macrostructure Reality, and How Sociologists Help Them To Do So? application/pdf icon
1981

In K. Knorr et A. Cicourel (editors) Advances in Social Theory and Methodology, Routledge and Kegan Paul, Londres, pp. 277-303 (with Michel Callon)

Abstract

This social theory article explores the problem of micro and macro society without accepting an a priori scale to measure the levels; it demonstrates that by letting the actors build their own scale, the growth of science and technology becomes explainable.

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1990: Français / French
« Le Grand Léviathan s’apprivoise-t-il? » , abridged version in Alain Gras et Sophie Poirot-Delpech (sous la direction de) L’Imaginaire des techniques de pointe, L’Harmattan, Paris, pp. 71-96. [complete French version in Sociologie de la traduction. Textes fondateurs, Presses de l’Ecole des Mines de Paris, 2006 (avec Madeleine Akrich et Michel Callon), pp.11-32]

Traduction suédoise voir / Swedish translation in reader see CT(ii)

2006: Allemand / German
In Andréa Belliger & David J. Krieger ANThology - Ein Einführendes Handbuch zur Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie, Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, 2006 pp.75-102