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Marketing ideas
In: Economy and society, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 448-462
ISSN: 1469-5766
Social basis of interactive social science
In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 165-173
ISSN: 1471-5430
Social Basis of Interactive Social Science
In: Science & public policy: SPP ; journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 165-173
ISSN: 0302-3427, 0036-8245
Introduction
In: Science, technology, & human values: ST&HV, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 283-285
ISSN: 1552-8251
What's at Stake in the Sociology of Technology? A Reply to Pinch and to Winner
In: Science, technology, & human values: ST&HV, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 523-529
ISSN: 1552-8251
Beyond the citation debate: towards a sociology of measurement technologies and their use in science policy
In: Science and public policy: journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 319-326
ISSN: 1471-5430
The very idea of social epistemology: What prospects for a truly radical 'radically naturalized epistemology'?
In: Inquiry: an interdisciplinary journal of philosophy and the social sciences, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 377-389
ISSN: 1502-3923
What is "Anthropological" About the Anthropology of Science?Life Among the Scientists: An Anthropological Study of an Australian Scientific Community.Max Charlesworth , Lyndsay Farrall , Terry Stokes , David Turnbull
In: Current anthropology, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 79-81
ISSN: 1537-5382
Beyond the Citation Debate: Towards a Sociology of Measurement Technologies and Their Use in Science Policy
In: Science & public policy: SPP ; journal of the Science Policy Foundation, Band 18, Heft 5, S. 319-326
ISSN: 0302-3427, 0036-8245
The Turn to Technology in Social Studies of Science
In: Science, technology, & human values: ST&HV, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 20-50
ISSN: 1552-8251
This article examines how the special theoretical significance of the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is affected by attempts to apply relativist-constructivism to technology. The article shows that the failure to confront key analytic ambivalences in the practice of SSK has compromised its original strategic significance. In particular, the construal of SSK as an explanatory formula diminishes its potential for profoundly reconceptualizing epistemic issues. A consideration of critiques of technological determinism, and of some empirical studies, reveals similar analytic ambivalences in the social study of technology (SST). The injunction to consider "technology as text" is critically examined. It is concluded that a reflexive interpretation of this slogan is necessary to recover some of the epistemological significance lost in the constructivist move from SSK to SST.
What Is the Analysis of Scientific Rhetoric for? A Comment on the Possible Convergence Between Rhetorical Analysis and Social Studies of Science
In: Science, technology, & human values: ST&HV, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 47-49
ISSN: 1552-8251
Why not a Sociology of Machines? The Case of Sociology and Artificial Intelligence
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 19, Heft 4, S. 557-572
ISSN: 1469-8684
In the light of the recent growth of artificial intelligence (AI), and of its implications for understanding human behaviour, this paper evaluates the prospects for an association between sociology and artificial intelligence. Current presumptions about the distinction between human behaviour and artificial intelligence are identified through a survey of discussions about AI and `expert systems'. These discussions exhibit a restricted view of sociological competence, a marked rhetoric of progress and a wide variation in assessments of the state of the art. By drawing upon recent themes in the social study of science, these discussions are shown to depend on certain key dichotomies and on an interpretive flexibility associated with the notions of intelligence and expertise. The range of possible associations between sociology and AI reflects the extent to which we are willing to adopt these features of AI discourse. It is suggested that one of the more important options is to view the AI phenomenon as an occasion for reassessing the central axiom of sociology that there is something distinctively `social' about human behaviour.