Knowledge as Social Order (eBook, ePUB)

Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes
Redaktion: Mazzotti, Massimo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Investigating a theme first pioneered by Barry Barnes in the early 1970s, this volume explores the relationship between social order and legitimate knowledge and is intended as a tribute to Barnes' seminal role in the development of the discipline of science and technology studies (STS).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317108900
• Artikelnr.: 49351880

Autorenporträt

Massimo Mazzotti is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Exeter, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Massimo Mazzotti; Relativism at 30
000 feet
David Bloor; Relativism: is it worth the candle?
Trevor Pinch; Who is the industrial scientist? Commentary from academic sociology and from the shop-floor in the United States
ca.1900-ca.1970
Steven Shapin; The meaning of hoaxes
Harry Collins; Objectual practice
Karin Knorr Cetina; Producing accounts: finitism
technology and rule-following
Donald MacKenzie; Power and legitimacy
Mark Haugaard; Barnes on the freedom of the will
Martin Kusch; Agency
responsibility and structure: understanding the migration of asylum seekers to Ireland
Steven Loyal; Against maladaptationism: or what's wrong with evolutionary psychology?
John Dupré; Index.