Social Construction of Science

A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 84-87

  Collins, Harry ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actual analysis of how facts and theories come to be believed; Members of elite group who have the means to test an experimental claim finding themselves in dispute; Social construction of science; Thomas Kuhn's influential book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions in shifting fashion like switches of view analogous with "gestalt switches" in psychology; Western style medicine brought to societies with radically different beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054101259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444310795.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

References (8)

1. Bloor, D. (1976). Knowledge and Social Imagery (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul); 2nd edn (1991) (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press).
2. Collins, H. M. (1985). Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice (London/Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage); 2nd edn (1992) (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press).
3. Collins, H. M. and Pinch, T. J. (1993). The Golem: What Everyone Should Know about Science (Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press). New edn 1998.
4. Fleck, L. (1935/1979). Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press). First published in German in 1935.
5. Knorr-Cetina, K. (1981). The Manufacture of Knowledge (Oxford: Pergamon).
6. Kuhn, T. S. (1962). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press).
7. Labinger, J. and Collins, H. (2001). The One Culture?: A Conversation about Science (Chicago, Ill.:University of Chicago Press).
8. Latour, B. and Woolgar, S. (1979). Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts (London/Beverly Hills: Sage).