Agency and Structure in Shipbuilding: Practice and Social Learning Perspectives

Shipbuilding is inherently a social process involving numerous craftsmen utilizing their knowledge and skills while working together to produce complex machine. The construction of ship traditionally relies on stratified apprenticeship system that entails master teaching apprentices trade. In this type setting, the shipyard becomes classroom where younger generations learn mimic mannerisms from instructors. development technique considered an individual practice, which, with other methodologies shared interactions, structures within specific society. Repetition practice may reaffirm existing structure, which in article relates various communities shipbuilders. This paper addresses shipbuilding’s perspective through operational based surviving shipwreck timbers. Two case studies are addressed: Mediterranean shipbuilding between Medieval Modern periods study late 17th-century French organization.