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The Social Production of Scientific Knowledge
β Scribed by Everett Mendelsohn (auth.), Everett Mendelsohn, Peter Weingart, Richard Whitley (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 292
- Series
- Sociology of the Sciences A Yearbook 1
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge....Pages 3-26
The Social Construction of Science: Institutionalisation and Definition of Positive Science in the Latter Half of the Seventeenth Century ....Pages 27-54
Problems of a Historical Study of Science....Pages 55-67
Scientific Ideology and Scientific Process: The Natural History of a Conceptual Shift ....Pages 69-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Ontological and Epistemological Commitments and Social Relations in the Sciences: The Case of the Arithmomorphic System of Scientific Production ....Pages 103-128
Cognitive Norms, Knowledge- Interests and the Constitution of the Scientific Object: A Case Study in the Functioning of Rules for Experimentation ....Pages 129-141
Changes in the Social and Intellectual Organisation of the Sciences: Professionalisation and the Arithmetic Ideal ....Pages 143-169
What Does a Proof Do if it Does Not Prove?....Pages 171-215
Front Matter....Pages 217-217
The Political Direction of Scientific Development....Pages 219-242
Scientific Purity and Nuclear Danger....Pages 243-264
Creation VS. Evolution: The Politics of Science Education ....Pages 265-287
Back Matter....Pages 289-294
β¦ Subjects
Interdisciplinary Studies
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