The STS Methodological Project in the early works of Bruno Latour
This article traces the development, from a methodological point of view, of an early version of the actor-network theory proposed by researcher of science and technology Bruno Latour. The article reveals the originality of Latour’s methodological approach, as an attempt to avoid falling into reductionist extremes of sociological constructivism and scientific so-called “naïve realism”. The result of this attempt is a fundamental reassembly of ideas about social research and the construction of a purely ontological philosophical theory, rather than just a sociological one. The main original move of the new methodological approach is the inclusion of non-human actors in the number of participants in social action.