John Law (sociologist)
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John Law (born 16 May 1946),[1] is a sociologist and science and technology studies scholar, currently on the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. Law coined the term Actor-Network Theory (ANT) in 1992 when synthesising work done with colleagues at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation.[2]
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Born | (1946-05-16) 16 May 1946 (age 77) |
Awards | John Desmond Bernal Prize |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
Thesis | Specialties in Science: A Sociological Study of X-ray Protein Crystallography |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Sociology, Science and technology studies |
Main interests | Actor-network theory |
Notable works | "Provincialising STS" (2015) "STS as Method" (2015) After Method (2004) Aircraft Stories (2002) "Notes on Materiality and Sociality" (with Annemarie Mol, 1995) A Sociology of Monsters (editor, 1991) "Technology and Heterogeneous Engineering: the Case of the Portuguese Expansion" (1987, in The Social Construction of Technological Systems) |
Notable ideas | Heterogeneous engineering |
Website | http://heterogeneities.net/ |
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A director of the ESRC funded Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change |
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