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Doing Things with Things - The Design and Use of Everyday Objects (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,711
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Doing Things with Things - The Design and Use of Everyday Objects (Paperback): Alan Costall

Doing Things with Things - The Design and Use of Everyday Objects (Paperback)

Alan Costall; Ole Dreier

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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: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2016
First published: 2006
Editors: Alan Costall
Authors: Ole Dreier
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-25314-8
Categories: Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General
Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Human geography > General
Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
LSN: 1-138-25314-6
Barcode: 9781138253148

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