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