@Barros_heritage@mfi@sociology@politicalscience
🤔 Is there really a need to define such an open term (beyond giving broad indications of its general function in the sociological discourse) ? It will always have blurred limits (when it comes to determining whether someone is acting or being "acted"), and when we try to give a strict definition, it will always enforce strong ontologies with very cumbersome consequences.
@Barros_heritage@mfi@sociology@politicalscience
For instance, one might consider the #ANT definition a fancy but sterile metaphysical move that will hinder sociological work ;-) (haha sorry for the provocation)
An alternative strategy would be to merely distanciate yourself from conceptual connotations, depending on the object you want to build ("actor" vs "agent", or "subject", or "stakeholder", or "individual", etc...) without closing the meaning with an determinate definition.