The Mangle of Practice: Agency and Emergence in the Sociology of Science
- 1 November 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in American Journal of Sociology
- Vol. 99 (3), 559-589
- https://doi.org/10.1086/230316
Abstract
Some difficult but important issues have arisen in recent social studies of science concerning temporally emergent phenomena and the decentering of the human subject in scientific practice. This essay seeks a constructive clarification of the issues, and links them together, by delineating and exemplifying a view of science as a field of emergent human and material agency reciprocally engaged by means of a dialectic of resistance and accommodation-the mangle.Keywords
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