This article focuses on the complex activity of reasoning, when people - as the ethnomethodologists put it - "make" society and social institutions. Traditionally the study of human reasoning and cognition has been based on assumptions which are at odds with recognising the sociocultural and sociocognitive nature of collective activities. The outline of our argument is that an analysis of the in situ use of institutional categories, points to very close links between thinking, communication and material tools. Physical artefacts represent externalisations of human knowledge; we project representational signs onto objects and we later inter-act with those signs. In our systems used for measuring, writing, and documenting events and acti...
Pinch, T. (2008). La tecnología como institución: ¿qué nos pueden enseñar los estudios sociales de l...
European Journal of Social Theory 10(3)(2007; forthcoming)Forthcoming in 2007 in the European Journa...
The argument presented in this article is that the premises governing human-technology interaction p...
International audienceThis article suggests a widening of the knowledge management process through t...
Abstract Cognition theories describe the social with terms like language, interaction or culture, wh...
A hallmark of human social life is its variability across cultures and history. One constant, howeve...
Cognitive forms vary considerably as a human being detaches herself from what is closest and most pe...
This paper considers how awareness of concepts, categories, and criteria in language can be utilized...
The purpose of this paper is to point out to some theoretical keys related to the techno-social rati...
International audienceThis article offers a hierarchy of definitions for information and communicati...
This essay intends to recover human agency from holistic, abstract, even oppressive conceptions of s...
Comments on the consciousness of the collective in sociotechnical networks The theory of sociotechn...
Socio-technical systems continue to grow larger and more complex, comprising increasingly significan...
Forms of thought, forms of social life : an enquiry into the origins of conceptual categories. Cogni...
Cognitive Science, in all its guises, has not yet accorded any fundamental importance to the social ...
Pinch, T. (2008). La tecnología como institución: ¿qué nos pueden enseñar los estudios sociales de l...
European Journal of Social Theory 10(3)(2007; forthcoming)Forthcoming in 2007 in the European Journa...
The argument presented in this article is that the premises governing human-technology interaction p...
International audienceThis article suggests a widening of the knowledge management process through t...
Abstract Cognition theories describe the social with terms like language, interaction or culture, wh...
A hallmark of human social life is its variability across cultures and history. One constant, howeve...
Cognitive forms vary considerably as a human being detaches herself from what is closest and most pe...
This paper considers how awareness of concepts, categories, and criteria in language can be utilized...
The purpose of this paper is to point out to some theoretical keys related to the techno-social rati...
International audienceThis article offers a hierarchy of definitions for information and communicati...
This essay intends to recover human agency from holistic, abstract, even oppressive conceptions of s...
Comments on the consciousness of the collective in sociotechnical networks The theory of sociotechn...
Socio-technical systems continue to grow larger and more complex, comprising increasingly significan...
Forms of thought, forms of social life : an enquiry into the origins of conceptual categories. Cogni...
Cognitive Science, in all its guises, has not yet accorded any fundamental importance to the social ...
Pinch, T. (2008). La tecnología como institución: ¿qué nos pueden enseñar los estudios sociales de l...
European Journal of Social Theory 10(3)(2007; forthcoming)Forthcoming in 2007 in the European Journa...
The argument presented in this article is that the premises governing human-technology interaction p...