Rethinking expertise / Harry Collins and Robert Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943-

Contributor:

Evans, Robert, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Expertise.

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What does it mean to be an expert? In Rethinking Expertise, Harry Collins and Robert Evans offer a radical new perspective on the role of expertise in the practice of science and the public evaluation of technology. Collins and Evans present a Periodic Table of Expertises based on the idea of tacit knowledge—knowledge that we have but cannot explain. They then look at how some expertises are used to judge others, how laypeople judge between experts, and how credentials are used to evaluate them. Throughout, Collins and Evans ask an important question: how can the public make use of science and

Contents:

Introduction: Why expertise?

The periodic table of expertises 1 : ubiquitous and specialist expertises

The periodic table of expertises 2 : meta-expertises and meta-criteria

Interactional expertise and embodiment

Walking the talk: experiments on color blindness, perfect pitch, and gravitational waves

New demarcation criteria

Conclusion: science, the citizen, and the role of social science

Appendix: waves of science studies.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-153) and index.

ISBN:

9786611959425

9781281959423

1281959421

9780226113623

0226113620

OCLC:

476229079