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- Ian Hutchby
- Department of Human Sciences Brunel University
説明
<jats:p> In contrast to recent sociological emphases on the social shaping of technology, this article proposes and illustrates a way of analysing the technological shaping of sociality. Drawing on the concept of affordances (Gibson 1979), the article argues for a recognition of the constraining, as well as enabling, materiality of artefacts. The argument is set in the theoretical context of one of the most recent and comprehensive statements of anti-essentialism (Grint and Woolgar 1997). The position is illustrated through a reinterpretation of some case studies used by proponents of the radical constructivist position. </jats:p>
収録刊行物
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- Sociology
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Sociology 35 (2), 441-456, 2001-05
SAGE Publications