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John Law | |
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| Born | 16 May 1946 |
| 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/ |
| Notes | |
A director of the ESRC funded Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change | |
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]
- ^ "Law, John, 1946-". Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 February 2015.
data sheet (b. 5/16/46)
- ^ Akrich, Madeleine (2023). "Actor Network Theory, Bruno Latour, and the CSI". Social Studies of Science. 53 (2): 169–173. doi:10.1177/03063127231158102. ISSN 0306-3127. PMID 36840444.
It was John Law who, from an inside-outside position, did an important job of synthesizing all the work developed at the CSI at the time taking up the term ANT (Law, 1992), a term whose origin is difficult to trace but which stems from the 'actor-network' used by Michel Callon in his analysis of the electric vehicle.