Penny Harvey, University of Manchester
The Annual Department of Sociology Lecture, hosted by the Centre for Invention & Social Process.
14th March 2019 17.30-19.00
Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths, University of London
Abstract
The lecture offers a critical analysis of the ways in which ‘the social’ is elicited as an interlocutor in projects that seek to deploy technical means to achieve social transformation. The discussion focuses on the staging of an experimental ‘hybrid forum’ that was designed to demonstrate a method to professionals engaged in the design and delivery of large-scale engineering projects. The method cuts across established ways in which such professionals would routinely look for support from social sciences who might otherwise be expected to speak for the social through the techniques of aggregation or abstraction that form the bedrock of quantitative approaches.… Continue reading