Social knowledge in the making / edited by Charles Camic, Neil Gross, and Michèle Lamont.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Camic, Charles.

Gross, Neil, 1971-

Lamont, Michèle, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Research.

Social sciences.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Physical Description:

xi, 471 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Contents:

Knowledge production in the disciplines

Library research infrastructure for humanistic and social scientific scholarship in the twentieth century / Andrew Abbott

In Clio's American atelier / Anthony T. Grafton

Filing the total human: anthropological archives from 1928 to 1963 / Rebecca Lemov

Academic conferences and the making of philosophical knowledge / Neil Gross and Crystal Fleming

Practical foundations of theorizing in sociology: the case of Pierre Bourdieu / Johan Heilbron

Knowledge evaluation sites

Comparing customary rules of fairness: evaluative practices in various types of peer review panels / Michèle Lamont and Katri Huutoniemi

Meetings by the minute(s): how documents create decisions for institutional review boards / Laura Stark

An experiment in interdisciplinarity: proposals and promises / Marilyn Strathern

Social knowledge beyond the academy

Subjects of persuasion: survey research as a solicitous science; or, the public relations of the polls / Sarah E. Igo

The practices of objectivity in regulatory science / Sheila Jasanoff

How claims to know the future are used to understand the present: techniques of prospection in the field of national security / Grégoire Mallard and Andrew Lakoff

What do market designers do when they design markets? economists as consultants to the redesign of wholesale electricity markets in the United States / Daniel Breslau

Financial analysis: epistemic profile of an evaluative science / Karin Knorr Cetina.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226092089

0226092089

9780226092096

0226092097

OCLC:

698029490