Social knowledge in the making / edited by Charles Camic, Neil Gross, and Michele 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:

1 online resource (486 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to Social Knowledge in the Making turn their attention to the social sciences, broadly construed. The result is the first comprehensive effort to study and understand the day-to-day activities involved in the creation of social-scientific and related forms of knowledge about the social world. The essays collected here tackle a ran

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 / Michele 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 / Gregoire 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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613250247

9780226092102

0226092100

9781283250245

1283250241

OCLC:

747410613