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Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line - Couverture rigide

Gieryn, Thomas F.

 
9780226292618: Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0226292614 ISBN 13 : 9780226292618
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1999

Synopsis

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".

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas F. Gieryn is the Rudy Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Indiana University Bloomington.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226292614
ISBN 13 
9780226292618
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
412
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