The Social Production of Scientific Knowledge Yearbook 1977

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mendelsohn, E. (Editor), Weingart, P. (Editor), Whitely, R.D. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1977, 1977
Edition:1st ed. 1977
Series:Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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