Whereas Bourdieu assumes that society can only be explained by analyzing practices and relating them to their authors' position in society as well as to their own trajectory, Latour claims that to understand a society one must analyze the way humans and non-humans interact, i.e., how the artefacts that circulate in this are produced. As such, Latour favours the study of science in the making, which can be done, primarily, through ethnographic analysis of research labs. This article explores how Bruno Latour's actor-network's theory could complement Bourdieusian analyses in translation studies, allowing us to move further in the development of a more agent- and process-oriented type of research. The paper presents the key concepts, goals and achievements of Latour's approach and analyzes the way his framework relates to Bourdieu's sociology.