sociology of the social

is a method that forgoes a reliance on scholarship and instead embraces uncertainties about the nature of the universe and relies on the actors' own theories, contexts, metaphysics, and ontologies to assemble the social.

This shift from what Latour calls 'sociology of the social' to 'sociology of associations' is a method of study that embraces uncertainties about the nature of the universe and relies on the actors' own theories, contexts, metaphysics, and ontologies to assemble the social. Thus, rather than use scholarship to critique how the social forces assemble society, Latour advocates for a return to empiricism, in which scholars' main task is to 'deploy actors as networks of mediations,' and to describe how these multiple, complex associations of actors create a collective.

is the limited sociological method that uses the social to explain a state of affairs and to solve current controversies.

In his introduction to Actor-Network Theory (ANT), Latour calls for a new approach to sociology one, which rather than uses the social to explain a state of affairs and to solve current controversies, traces associations and relations between controversies in order to describe how society is assembled by various actors (both human and non-human).

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sociology of the social