Philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science have grown increasingly interested in the daily practices of scientists. Recent studies have drawn linkages between scientific innovations and more ordinary procedures, craft skills, and sources of sponsorship. These studies dispute the idea that science is the application of a unified method or the outgrowth of a progressive history of ideas. The central purpose of this book is to explore the possibility of an empirical approach to the epistemic contents of science that avoids the pitfalls of scientism and foundationalism.
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Philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science have grown increasingly interested in the daily practices of scientists. Recent studies have drawn linkages between scientific innovations and more ordinary procedures, craft skills, and sources of sponsorship. These studies dispute the idea that science is the application of a unified method or the outgrowth of a progressive history of ideas. The central purpose of this book is to explore the possibility of an empirical approach to the epistemic contents of science that avoids the pitfalls of scientism and foundationalism.
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This review is from: Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action: Ethnomethodology and Social Studies of Science (Hardcover)
Mike Lynch is a a formidable scholar in the social studies of the sciences. His former book, ART AND ARTEFACT IN LABORATORY SCIENCE, broke new ground in its detailed and precise analysis of exactly how natural scientists (in this case, neuroscientists) go about their business. In this early text, Lynch explored just exactly HOW neurobiologists distinguish between facts and artefacts in Golgi staining operations. But the book went far beyond this technical focus to explore how natural scientists create the domains of intelleigibility which they inhabit. In his subsequent work, SCIENTIFIC PRACTICE AND ORDINARY ACTION, Lynch developed much further his intense analysis of how it is that the 'scientific' is connected to, and dependent upon, 'commonsensical' modes of reasoning and inquiring. A truly original work, with much to recommend it, especially vis-a-vis his critique of pretentious philosophical treatments of similar themes. Controversial, but well worth your attention...
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skepticist reading, bricolage expertise, competing internal relations, postanalytic ethnomethodology, accordance with immanent laws, general total conception, molecular sociology, vernacular intuitions, natural observational science, unique adequacy requirement, pure logical possibilities, primitive natural science, epistemic themes, many ethnomethodologists, ethnomethodological indifference, ethnomethodological investigations, ethnomethodological studies, laboratory ethnographies, singular conversations, immortal ordinary society, analytic culture, accountable phenomena, current speaker selects, indexical expressions, ethnomethodological research Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Harvey Sacks, Kegan Paul, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, Harold Garfinkel, Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar, Eric Livingston, Harvard University Press, Michael Mulkay, Princeton University Press, David Bloor, Michael Lynch, Alfred Schutz, Blackwell Publisher, American Sociological Review, Free Press, Jeff Coulter, Polity Press, Science Observed, David Bogen, Department of Sociology, Erving Goffman, Gail Jefferson New!
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Ethnomethodology can be describe briefly as a way to investigate the genealogical relationship between social practices and accounts of those practices. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
skepticist reading, bricolage expertise, competing internal relations, postanalytic ethnomethodology, accordance with immanent laws, general total conception, molecular sociology, vernacular intuitions, natural observational science, unique adequacy requirement, pure logical possibilities, primitive natural science, epistemic themes, many ethnomethodologists, ethnomethodological indifference, ethnomethodological investigations, ethnomethodological studies, laboratory ethnographies, singular conversations, immortal ordinary society, analytic culture, accountable phenomena, current speaker selects, indexical expressions, ethnomethodological research Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Harvey Sacks, Kegan Paul, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, Harold Garfinkel, Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar, Eric Livingston, Harvard University Press, Michael Mulkay, Princeton University Press, David Bloor, Michael Lynch, Alfred Schutz, Blackwell Publisher, American Sociological Review, Free Press, Jeff Coulter, Polity Press, Science Observed, David Bogen, Department of Sociology, Erving Goffman, Gail Jefferson New!
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- Studies in Ethnomethodology (Social and Political Theory) by Harold Garfinkel on 22 pages
- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 15 pages
- Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology (Social & Political Theory) by John Heritage on 11 pages
- Ethnomethodology and the Human Sciences by Graham Button on 11 pages
- Science: The Very Idea (Key Ideas) by Steve Woolgar on 10 pages
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- Standardization and Tacit Knowledge: Interaction and Practice in the Survey Interview by Douglas W. Maynard on page 42, page 362, and page 396
- The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory by Karin Knorr Cetina in Front Matter, and page 223
- The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory by Karin Knorr Cetina in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Science Unfettered: Philosophical Study In Sociohistorical Ontology (Series In Continental Thought) by James E. Mcguire in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Differences in Medicine: Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies (Body, Commodity, Text) by Marc Berg in Back Matter
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