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To render as, or turn into, a point; (specifically, sociology) to consider a conceptual or social network as a single point-like entity or “black box”.
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One of the complaints sometimes made concerning phenomenology is that it seems to substantialize the self, that it makes the ego into a kind of fixed point that escapes its own history […] But phenomenology does not punctualize the self […]
Certainly, some networks are easier to punctualize than others. They are network packages, routines, taken for granted.
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MSNBC.com in 2010 was a quintessentially postmodern organization […] We can speak of its needs, its managerial decisions, and the systems it builds—we can punctualize it, to use the ANT term […] but in doing so, we must ourselves be reflexive about the fact that we are ultimately employing a construction.
The black box metaphor in actor-network theory was never meant to be used to describe a stable state of affairs, but to highlight the human and social tendency to punctualize networks of relations in black boxes.
To express an action as happening at a specific moment.
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Among indices of the first type, we find not only adverbs like hier ‘yesterday’, but also a variety of other expressions that serve to punctualize or indicate a specific time.
Their distribution is complementary insofar as preverbs mark the punctuality of accomplishments (and some achievements), whereas the doni suffix punctualizes activities and states.
The ability to punctualize an act is therefore highly conducive to keeping verbs outside the aspectual system […]