Unscrewing the Big Leviathan; or How Actors Macrostructure Reality, and How Sociologists Help Them To Do So?
In K. Knorr et A. Cicourel (editors) Advances in Social Theory and Methodology, Routledge and Kegan Paul, Londres, pp. 277-303 (with Michel Callon)
This social theory article explores the problem of micro and macro society without accepting an a priori scale to measure the levels; it demonstrates that by letting the actors build their own scale, the growth of science and technology becomes explainable.
1990: Français / French
« Le Grand Léviathan s’apprivoise-t-il? » , abridged version in Alain Gras et Sophie Poirot-Delpech (sous la direction de) L’Imaginaire des techniques de pointe, L’Harmattan, Paris, pp. 71-96. [complete French version in Sociologie de la traduction. Textes fondateurs, Presses de l’Ecole des Mines de Paris, 2006 (avec Madeleine Akrich et Michel Callon), pp.11-32]
Traduction suédoise voir / Swedish translation in reader see CT(ii)
2006: Allemand / German
In Andréa Belliger & David J. Krieger ANThology - Ein Einführendes Handbuch zur Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie, Bielefeld, Transcript Verlag, 2006 pp.75-102
