Bruno Latours Research Program and its Advantages in Terms of the Researches over Modern World

The authoress puts the following objective in her article: to show and to emphasize Bruno Latour's specificity of research perspective in the context of his 'actor-network' theory (ANT). She presents political advantages of this approach in the context of the researches over contemporary world, and also reasons of Latour rejects the sociology of knowledge program. In the next part of the paper the authoress wishes to give an outline of an image of certain area setting the methodological identity of ANT. She invokes the diagnoses of contemporary society, performed by Thomas H. Eriksen, George Ritzer and Ulrich Beck. She cites on Latour's works, and also her earlier publications from the domain of the sociology of knowledge and the anthropology of science.