Interests, Positivism and History

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1981, Pages 498-504

  MacKenzie, Donald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84972633208     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030631278101100405     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Steve Woolgar, ‘Interests and Explanation in the Social Study of Science’, Social Studies of Science, Vol 11 (1981), 365-94. (Figures in parentheses throughout this Response refer to the relevant page numbers in Woolgar's paper.)
2. Barry Barnes, On the “Hows” and “Whys” of Cultural Change (Response to Woolgar)’, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 11 (1981), 481-98.
3. D. Mackenzie, ‘Statistical Theory and Social Interests: A Case Study’, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 8 (1978), 35-83.
4. The central published papers are items 27, 76, 111, 119, 140, 157, 188, 206, 207, 217 and 279 in Morant's bibliography, but there is other relevant material in the Pearson archive. See G. M. Morant, A Bibliography of the Statistical and Other Writings of Karl Pearson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938).
5. G. R. Searle, ‘Eugenics and Class’, in Charles Webster (ed.), Biology, Medicine and Society, 1840-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).
6. D. A. Mackenzie, Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1981), Chapter 2.
7. David Barker, of the Department of Social Administration, Manchester University, has completed an extremely interesting study which throws new light on such topics as the relationship between eugenics and the medical profession.
8. D. MacKenzie and B. Barnes, ‘Scientific Judgement: The Biometry-Mendelism Controversy’, in Barnes and S. Shapin (eds), Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture (London and Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage, 1979), 191-210;
9. Barnes and MacKenzie, ‘On the Role of Interests in Scientific Change’, in R. Wallis (ed.), On the Margins of Science: The Social Construction of Rejected Knowledge (Keele, Staffs.: University of Keele, Sociological Review Monograph No. 27, 1979), 49-66.