Floundering or Frolicking — How does Ethnography Fare in Theoretical Physics? (and What Sort of Ethnography?): A Reply to Gale and Pinnick

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 123-131

  Cetina, Karin Knorr ^a   Merz, Martina ^a,b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84992920712     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030631297027001006     Document Type: Article

References (9)

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2. George Gale and Cassandra L. Pinnick, ‘Stalking Theoretical Physicists: An Ethnography Flounders: A Response to Merz and Knorr Cetina’, Social Studies of Science, Vol. 27, No. 1 (February 1997), 113–123.
3. Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (New York: Random House, 1977).
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5. Barbara Johnson, The Critical Difference (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980).
6. Jacques Derrida, Margins of Philosophy (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1982), esp. 26–27, 65–67.
7. Karin Knorr Cetina, Epistemic Cultures (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997).
8. Andrew Pickering, ‘Objectivity and the Mangle of Practice’, Annals of Scholarship, Vol. 8 (1991), 409–425
9. Pickering, The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency and Science (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1995), Chapter 4.