Mendelsohn (Everett), Weingart (Peter) and Whitley (Richards), eds.
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(1977)
D. Reidel Publishing Company , Sociology of the Sciences Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1977 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editors' wrappers grand In-8 1 vol. - 304 pages
1st paperback Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Editorial Statement, x, Text, 294 pages - 1. The Institutionalisation of the sciences : E. Mendelsohn : The social construction of scientific knowledge - Wolfgang van den Daele : The social construction of science - Wolf Lepenies : Problems of a historical study of science - Roger G. Krohn : Scientific ideology and scientific process : The natural history of a conceptual shift - 2. Social relations of cognitive structures in the sciences : Phyllis Colvin : Ontological and epistemological commitments and social relations in the science : The case of arithmomorphic system of scientific production - Gernot Böhme : Cognitive norms, knowledge-interests and the constitution of the scientific object : A case study in the functioning of rules of experimentation - Richard Whitley : Changes in the social and intellectual organisation of the sciences : Professionalisation and the arithmetic ideal - Trevor J. Pinch : 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 Quantum Physics - 3. Social goals, political programmes and scientific norms : Wolfgang van den Daele, Wolfgang Krohn and Peter Weingart : The political direction of scientific development - Helga Nowotny : Scientific purity and nuclear danger : The case of risk assessment - Dorothy Nelkin : Creation versus Evolution : The politics of science education - Index wrappers are lightly browning, otherwise near fine copy, no markings