1st Edition
The Rational and the Social How to Understand Science in a Social World
By James Robert Brown
Copyright 1989
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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To paraphrase Marx, sociologists have only interpreted science; the point is to improve it. The Rational and the Social attempts both. It begins by sketching recent sociological approaches to science, notably the strong programme – Bloor’s ‘science of science’ and Barnes’s ‘finitism’ – and that of the ‘anthropologists in the lab’, Collins and Latour and Woolgar. The author argues that although... Read more
1. The Sociological Turn 2. The Science of Science 3. Finitism 4. The Experimenter’s Social Circle 5. Bolingbroke versus Henry Ford 6. How to be an Anthropologist of Science 7. Making Science Better
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Brown, James Robert
