Abstract
At several points in previous sections we have used phrases such as the utility or workability of a network. The careful reader will have noticed that in so doing we are using a notion that, while of great importance to the network theory, has not yet been explicitly introduced. In this chapter, then, we sketch out what we intend when we use such notions as workability.
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For further, cross-cultural, consideration of this point see Michael Cole and Sylvia Scribner, Culture and Thought (Wiley, New York, 1969) pp. 61–98.
For the original ethnography, together with extensive analysis, see R. Bulmer, ‘Why the Cassowary is not a Bird’, in Mary Douglas (ed.), Rules and Meanings (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1973) pp. 167–93.
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Law, J., Lodge, P. (1984). Workability and Truth. In: Science for Social Scientists. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17536-9_7
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