ABSTRACT
The social world is made up of fields whose boundaries and shapes are constantly negotiated, as was shown in the previous chapter. The negotiation involves scientific and non-scientific institutions and people, and usually also includes foreign participants. Negotiation involves not only the exchange between actors but also the diverse changes in the nature of the actors themselves. Their identity is transformed by negotiation and the result is new participants, that is, an assemblage or network with new members (people and objects), who have new properties and features.
