The Social Production of Scientific Knowledge
In: Sociology of the Sciences A Yearbook 1
In: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 1
I: The Institutionalisation of the Sciences: Changing Concepts and Approaches in the History and Sociology of Science -- The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge -- The Social Construction of Science: Institutionalisation and Definition of Positive Science in the Latter Half of the Seventeenth Century -- Problems of a Historical Study of Science -- Scientific Ideology and Scientific Process: The Natural History of a Conceptual Shift -- II: Social Relations of Cognitive Structures in the Sciences -- Ontological and Epistemological Commitments and Social Relations in the Sciences: The Case of the Arithmomorphic System of Scientific Production -- Cognitive Norms, Knowledge- Interests and the Constitution of the Scientific Object: A Case Study in the Functioning of Rules for Experimentation -- Changes in the Social and Intellectual Organisation of the Sciences: Professionalisation and the Arithmetic Ideal -- What Does a Proof Do If It Does Not Prove? A Study of the Social Conditions and Metaphysical Divisions Leading to David Bohm and John von Neumann Failing to Communicate in Quantum Physics -- III: Social Goals, Political Programmes and Scientific Norms -- The Political Direction of Scientific Development -- Scientific Purity and Nuclear Danger: The Case of Risk-Assessment -- Creation vs Evolution: The Politics of Science Education.