Sociology of Science and Technology

Abstract

We saw in the previous chapter that scientific knowledge can no longer be treated as some asocial, privileged account of nature. Sociologists and historians of science have shown that the general shape and direction of science is influenced by social processes. So too are the very knowledge-claims of science itself. However, while there is general agreement about this, sociologists have differed over the way this process is to be understood and the methodological implications it has. This debate provides the primary focus of this chapter.

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