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Representing the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and Law

Science Communication, 1998
The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) has become widely cited in policy contexts including discussion of law, science, and society. The following article provides a textual examination of how some of the work of eminent SSK and law scholar Sheila Jasanoff has been received in U.S. legal scholarship. Focusing on debate sparked by the 1993 Supreme
GARY EDMOND, DAVID MERCER
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Rationality and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

Sociological Theory, 1991
Within the positivist tradition, natural scientific knowledge is the epitome of rationality. In philosophy, this view was fostered by the logical positivist Reichenbach's (1938) distinction between the context of discovery and the context of justification.
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Ideology and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

Social Studies of Science, 1994
Ideology critique has traditionally proceeded either by contrasting science and ideology or by distinguishing genuine interests from the distortions of false consciousness. At the same time that the sociology of scientific knowledge has opened up the content of science to social analysis, it has undermined the bases for such ideology critique.
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Rule-Scepticism and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

Social Studies of Science, 2004
This paper revisits the 1992 debate between David Bloor and Michael Lynch over the importance of Wittgenstein’s rule-following considerations for social studies of science. Lynch defended four points: (1) Bloor is committed to a rule-sceptical reading of Wittgenstein; (2) this reading is similar to that proposed by Kripke in 1982; (3) the criticism ...
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Explanation and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

1986
In this book a detailed examination of an extended episode of scientific development is presented. The focus of the case study is the conception, financing, building and subsequent interpretation of just one experiment. This experiment, designed to detect particles known as ‘neutrinos’, emitted by the Sun, has provoked much scientific interest because ...
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Conventionalism, scientific discovery and the sociology of knowledge*

International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 1993
Abstract In this paper the basic aim of the so‐called ‘strong programme’ in the sociology of knowledge is examined. The ‘strong programme’ is considered (and rightly so) as an extreme version of the anti‐realist view of science. While the problem of scientific realism has normally been dealt with from the point of view of the ‘context of justification’
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Cold fusion and the sociology of scientific knowledge

Technical Communication Quarterly, 1994
The early stages of the cold fusion controversy are reviewed. It is shown how ideas in the sociology of scientific knowledge such as “symmetry,”; “interpretative flexibility,”; and “experimenter's regress”; are applicable to the controversy. It is argued that there is nothing exceptional about the dynamics of the debate, apart from the media attention.
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The knowledge content of science and the sociology of scientific knowledge

Journal for General Philosophy of Science, 1992
Several, seemingly unrelated problems of empirical research in the ‘sociology of scientific knowledge’ can be analyzed as following from initial assumptions with respect to the status of the knowledge content of science. These problems involve: (1) the relation between the level of the scientific field and the group level; (2) the boundaries and the ...
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Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Toward a New Agenda

Sociological Theory, 1996
In previous decades, a regrettable divorce has arisen between two currents of theorizing and research about knowledge and science: the Mannheimian and Wittgensteinian traditions. The radical impulse of the new social studies of science in the early 1970s was initiated not by followers of Mannheim, but by Wittgensteinians such as Kuhn, Bloor, and ...
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The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Studies of Contemporary Science

Annual Review of Sociology, 1983
When, in 1975, Joseph Ben-David and Teresa Sullivan reviewed the "Sociology of Science" for this series, they did not need to mention the sociology of scientific knowledge. Just six years later, Ben-David (1981) published a review article with "Sociology of Scientific Knowledge" as the title.
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