The Social Production of Scientific Knowledge - Yearbook 1977

List 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: E. Mendelsohn (Editor), Everett Mendelsohn (Editor), P. Weingart (Editor), R. D. Whitely (Editor), R.D. Whitely (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2012
• EAN: 9789027707758
• ISBN: 978-90-277-0775-8
• No. of pages: 301
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 244 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 619 g
• Illustrations: 301 p.
• Series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook; Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics