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Migrations, arts, and bodies: the Silhouette in multiple shadows of Rubiane Maia. [PDF]

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The sociology of scientific knowledge

2016
The chapter presents the early years and the subsequent developments of the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (SSK), starting from the School of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Strong Programme advanced by David Bloor, introducing its four tenets: symmetry, impartiality, causality, and reflexivity. After presenting the main works done in Laboratory Studies,
Marcel Boumans, John B. Davis, Mark Blaug, Harro Maas, Andrej Svorenčik   +4 more
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Sociological Models of Scientific Knowledge

International Sociology, 1997
In contemporary advanced societies, the study of science and technology has acquired huge importance; this has been possible also thanks to the sociology of science. It is a hybrid specialty, because it derives from the sociology of knowledge and the social history of science, and yet is more and more conditioned by economics and politics.
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Sociology of knowledge and the sociology of scientific knowledge

Social Epistemology, 1997
L'A. examine de facon critique les conceptions de H.-H. Kogler, de P. Bourdieu et de K. Mannheim en ce qui concerne la sociologie de la connaissance. Il montre comment Kogler critique les analyses du rapport entre connaissance et contexte social developpees par les autres derniers auteurs.
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Toward a Sociology of Social Scientific Knowledge

Social Studies of Science, 2000
When abstract, quantitative and generalizing sociologies are juxtaposed to qualitative sociologies, the relationship is often seen as complementary or competitive. Our purpose is to articulate a different type of relationship between abstract social scientific knowledge (as exemplified in Survey Research [SR]) and the form of concrete and ...
Douglas W. Maynard, Nora Cate Schaeffer
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Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

2004
The work of sociologists of knowledge and socially oriented historians of science should be of interest to epistemologists for one clear and overriding reason. It furnishes a theory of knowledge which exhibits knowing as a social process, and knowledge as a collective accomplishment. Such a claim should not be underestimated. The sociology of knowledge
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Sociology of scientific knowledge and scientific education: Part I

Science and Education, 1994
This article is the first of two that will examine the claims of contemporary sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) and the bearing of these claims upon the rationale and practice of science teaching. It is maintained that if the claims of SSK are true then there are serious, and educationally and culturally deleterious, implications which follow ...
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Durkheim's sociology of scientific knowledge

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 1982
Durkheim's thinking on scientific knowledge reveals several contradictions, resulting from the relativist implications of his substantive theory of culture and the positivist assumptions of his metatheoretical definition of scientific methods in sociology. In his explanations of historical and cross-cultural differences in „truthful” representations of
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Sociological Ambivalence and the Order of Scientific Knowledge

Sociology, 2013
Merton’s early work on the ambivalence of scientists illustrates the productivity of importing a psychological concept to sociology. For commentators on the experience of modern societies, ambivalence describes the contradictory affective dimension of late modernity.
Michael Arribas-Ayllon, Andrew Bartlett
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Joseph Ben-David's sociology of scientific knowledge

Minerva, 1987
In his The Scientist's Role in Society, Joseph Ben-David said that "the so-called sociology of knowledge" is a theory which asserts "that there are regular relationships between the perspectives and motives of social groups on the one hand and philosophical, legal and religious (or ideological) systems of thought on the other".1 Thus construed, the ...
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