Baboon sociology? Commentary on Daniel Beunza’s Taking the Floor

Donald MacKenzie

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/14724

Baboon sociology? Commentary on Daniel Beunza’s Taking the Floor

Donald MacKenzie

School of Social and Political Science

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Beunza’s Taking the Floor is a contribution not just to the sociology of finance, but to the social sciences more broadly. Methodologically, the book demonstrates the virtue of returning to a field site using a different research method. Theoretically, it opens up important questions concerning the relationship between mainstream forms of sociological analysis and actor-network theory.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	71-75
Number of pages	5
Journal	Sociologica
Volume	16
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/14724
Publication status	Published - 19 May 2022

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Daniel Beunza
participant observation
sociology of finance
David Stark
actor-network theory

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