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Sociology of science : a sociological pilgrimage / Michael Mulkay.

By: Mulkay, Michael.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 1991Description: xix, 227 p. ; 23 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0335094090 (hbk); 033509404X (pbk); 0253339332 (Indiana University Press).Subject(s): Science -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 306.45
Contents:
Part one: Questions of method -- Two conflicting conclusions concerning methodology (1974) -- Action and belief or scientific discourse? (1981) -- Textual fragments on science, social science and literature (1989) -- Part two: Conventional analysis: revealing the social world of science -- Structure and process in a physics department (1971) with Anthony Williams -- Three models of scientific development (1975) -- Norms and ideology (1976) -- Consensus (1978) -- Knowledge and utility (1979) -- Part three: Discourse analysis: showing how scientists construct their social worlds -- Putting philosophy to work (1981) with Nigel Gilbert -- Theory choice (1984) with Nigel Gilbert -- Replication and mere replication (1986) with Nigel Gilbert -- Part four: New literary forms: exploring the many worlds of textuality -- Noblesse oblige (1984) -- Measuring the quality of life (1987) with Malcolm Ashmore and Trevor Pinch -- Looking backward (1989).

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The author of this book takes the reader on a journey through the social production of scientific knowledge in modern society.

Bibliography: (pages 219-223) and index.

Part one: Questions of method -- Two conflicting conclusions concerning methodology (1974) -- Action and belief or scientific discourse? (1981) -- Textual fragments on science, social science and literature (1989) -- Part two: Conventional analysis: revealing the social world of science -- Structure and process in a physics department (1971) with Anthony Williams -- Three models of scientific development (1975) -- Norms and ideology (1976) -- Consensus (1978) -- Knowledge and utility (1979) -- Part three: Discourse analysis: showing how scientists construct their social worlds -- Putting philosophy to work (1981) with Nigel Gilbert -- Theory choice (1984) with Nigel Gilbert -- Replication and mere replication (1986) with Nigel Gilbert -- Part four: New literary forms: exploring the many worlds of textuality -- Noblesse oblige (1984) -- Measuring the quality of life (1987) with Malcolm Ashmore and Trevor Pinch -- Looking backward (1989).