Doing Things with Things - The Design and Use of Everyday Objects (Hardcover, New edition)

It has been claimed that the natural sciences have abstracted for themselves a 'material world' set apart from human concerns, and social sciences, in their turn, constructed 'a world of actors devoid of things'. While a subject such as archaeology, by its very nature, takes objects into account, other disciplines, such as psychology, emphasize internal mental structures and other non-material issues. This book brings together a team of contributors from across the social sciences who have been taking 'things' more seriously to examine how people relate to objects. The contributors focus on every day objects and how these objects enter into our activities over the course of time. Using a combination of different theoretical approaches, including actor network theory, ecological psychology, cognitive linguistics and science and technology studies, the book argues against the standard notion of objects and their properties as inert and meaningless and argues for the need to understand the relations between people and objects in terms of process and change.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2006
First published:	2006
Editors:	Alan Costall
Authors:	Ole Dreier
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-4656-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
LSN:	0-7546-4656-4
Barcode:	9780754646563

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