Literature is a form of human expression. But not everything expressed in wordsâeven when organized and written downâis counted as literature. Those writings that are primarily informativeâtechnical, scholarly, journalisticâwould be excluded from the rank of literature by most, though not all, critics.
To define these indicators, our team has applied the primary insights of actant network theory developed within the disciplines of Science and Technology Studies and the history of technology and science to create a pragmatic theory of technoscientific emergence.ithin actant networks perhaps the primary type of traffic-the most common form of relationship-is the pro-duction and exchange of terminological information. In-deed, for human actors within such a network, their under-standing of the technology or field is generated by their consumption of this linguistic traffic.
Symbolic Interactionism. Symbolic interactionism is a sociological perspective on self and society based on the ideas of George H. Mead (1934), Charles H. Cooley (1902), W. I. Thomas (1931), and other pragmatists associated, primarily, with the University of Chicago in the early twentieth century.he central theme of symbolic interactionism is that human life is lived in the symbolic domain. Symbols are culturally derived social objects having shared meanings that are created and maintained in social interaction. Through language and communication, symbols provide the means by which reality is constructed.