The Social production of scientific knowledge / edited by Everett Mendelsohn, Peter Weingart, and Richard Whitley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mendelsohn, Everett, editor.

Weingart, Peter, editor.

Whitley, Richard, editor.

D. Reidel Publishing Company, publisher.

Mark B. Adams Emergence of Modern Science Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Sociology of the sciences ; v. 1, 1977.

Sociology of the sciences ; v. 1, 1977

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Penn Provenance:

Adams, Mark B., (former owner) (Adams copy)

Physical Description:

vi, 294 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1977.

Contents:

Part I. The institutionalization of the sciences : changing concepts and approaches in the history and sociology of science

The social construction of scientific knowledge / Everett Mendelsohn

The social construction of science : institutionalisation and definition of positive science in the latter half of the seventeenth century / Wolfgang Van Den Daele

Problems of a historical study of science / Wolf Lepenies

Scientific ideology and scientific process : the natural history of a conceptual shift / Roger G. Krohn

Part 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 / Phyllis Colvin

Cognitive norms, knowledge-interests and the constitution of the scientific object : a case study in the functioning of rules for experimentation / Gernot Böhme

Changes in the social and intellectual organisation of the sciences : professionalisation and the arithmetic ideal / Richard Whitley

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 Neuman failing to communicate in quantum physics / Trevor J. Pinch

Part III. Social goals, political programmes and scientific norms

The political direction of scientific development / Wolfgang Van Den Daele, Wolfgang Krohn, Peter Weingart

Scientific purity and nuclear danger : the case of risk-assessment / Helga Nowotny

Creation vs evolution : the politics of science education / Dorothy Nelkin.

Notes:

"Copyright ©1977 by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries Rare copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.

ISBN:

9027707758.

OCLC:

2968527