Heterogeneous Agencies in More-Than-Human Sociology;Analysis the Place of Agency in Approaches of More-Than-Human Sociology by Focusing on Actor-Network Theory

One of popular and well-known discussions in literature of new sociology is the groups of approaches that are known and presented as “More-than-human”. These approaches are included from many theories and attitudes, from classic sociology of Gabriel Tarde, and his theory as Monadology, and Deleuze and Guattari, related to Assemblage and relation and connection of everything in society, to some approaches as “New Materialism” or “Vital Materialism”, which were explained by Harway, Barad, Braidotti, Benet, and finally, some approaches of Science and Technology, particularly Actor-Network theory, which its most well-known character is Bruno Latour, thye are all considered as approaches of more-than-human sociology. What made all of these approaches close to each other is avoiding of considering agency just for human, and their desire toward expressing the heterogeneous agencies. They try not to limit agencies of society to only human and also they all avoid the dualities as subject-object and human-nature. What does really mean agencies and heterogeneous agencies in these approaches? This article after analysis of the most important theories of these approaches, at last by presenting a conceptual model, tried to answer this question and clear the meaning of this concept and the identity of that.