Cultural Boundaries of Science

Cultural Boundaries of Science pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025

Thomas F. Gieryn is professor of sociology at Indiana University. He is the editor of three books, most recently of Theories of Science in Society.

出版者:The University of Chicago Press
作者:Thomas F. Gieryn
出品人:
页数:412
译者:
出版时间:1999-1-15
价格:USD 41.00
装帧:Paperback
isbn号码:9780226292625
丛书系列:
图书标签:
  • 社会学 
  • 科学史 
  • 社会科学 
  • 知识社会学 
  • sociology 
  • of 
  • STS 
  •  
想要找书就要到 小美书屋
立刻按 ctrl+D收藏本页
你会得到大惊喜!!

Why is science so credible? Usual answers centre on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. This text argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims leave laboratories and enter courtrooms, boardrooms, and living rooms. On such occasions, we use "maps" to decide who to believe - cultural maps demarcating "science" from pseudoscience, ideology, faith, or nonsense. Thomas F. Gieryn looks at episodes of boundary-work: Was phrenology good science? How about cold fusion? Is social science really scientific? Is organic farming? After centuries of disputes like these, Gieryn finds no stable criteria that absolutely distinguish science from non-science. Science remains a pliable cultural space, flexibly reshaped to claim credibility for some beliefs while denying it to others. In an epilogue, Gieryn finds this same controversy at the heart of the raging "science wars".

具体描述

读后感

评分

评分

评分

评分

评分

用户评价

评分

评分

评分

评分

评分

本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息,本站不存储任何数据与内容,任何内容与数据均与本站无关,如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度google,bing,sogou

© 2025 book.quotespace.org All Rights Reserved. 小美书屋 版权所有