Collaboration and Scandal: A Comment on Labinger

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 324-329

  Lynch, Michael ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84970785421     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030631295025002010     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Jay A. Labinger, ‘Science as Culture: A View from the Petri Dish’, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 25, No. 2 (May 1995), 285–306.
2. Cartoon by Andrew Birch, The Times Higher Education Supplement (London, 30 September 1994), 17.
3. See, for example, Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life (London: Sage, 1979)
4. Karin Knorr-Cetina, The Manufacture of Knowledge (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1981).
5. Sharon Traweek, Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physics (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988).
6. Michael Lynch, Art and Artifact in Laboratory Science (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985), and Latour & Woolgar.
7. See B. Latour, Science in Action (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987), and many other sources.
8. Labinger, 286–87, cites Steve Fuller, Philosophy, Rhetoric and the End of Knowledge (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993).
9. See Françoise Brun-Cottan, Kathy Forbes, Charles Goodwin, Marjorie H. Goodwin, Brigitte Jordan, Lucy Suchman and Randy Trigg, ‘The Workplace Project: Designing for Diversity and Change’, video produced by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Palo Alto, CA, 1991).
10. Suchman, ‘Technologies of Accountability: Of Lizards and Airplanes‘, in Graham Button (ed.), Technology in Working Order: Studies of Work Interaction and Technology (London: Routledge, 1992), 113–26.
11. Labinger, 287, cites H.M. Collins, Changing Order (London: Sage, 1985), 51–78.
12. This section is based on an earlier study by Collins, ‘The TEA Set: Tacit Knowledge and Scientific Networks’, Science Studies, Vol. 4 (1974), 165–86.
13. See Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks, ‘On Formal Structures of Practical Actions’, in J.C. McKinney and E.A. Tiryakian (eds), Theoretical Sociology: Perspectives and Development (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1970), 337–66.
14. M. Lynch, Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action: Ethnomethodology and Social Studies of Science (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
15. It may be recalled that Nixon ‘collaborated’ in his own undoing by authorizing the tape recordings of his meetings and phone calls in the Oval Office. He reportedly did this in order to secure his place in history. See M. Schudson, Watergate in American Memory (New York: Basic Books, 1992).
16. Gilbert Ryle, ‘The World of Science and the Everyday World’, in Ryle, Dilemmas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1954), 68–81, quote at 75.