Science as practice and culture  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Andrew Pickering. 
 -  University of Chicago Press,  1992. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 474 p.) :  ill. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>From science as knowledge to science as practice / Andrew Pickering -- The self-vindication of the laboratory sciences / Ian Hacking -- Putting agency back into experiment / David Gooding -- The couch, the cathedral, and the laboratory : on the relationship between experiment and laboratory in science / Karin Knorr Cetina -- Constructing quaternions : on the analysis of conceptual practice / Andrew Pickering and Adam Stephanides -- Crafting science : standardized packages, boundary objects, and "translation" / Joan H. Fujimura -- Extending Wittgenstein : the pivotal move from epistemology to the sociology of science / Michael Lynch -- Left and right Wittgensteinians / David Bloor -- From the "will to theory" to the discursive collage : a reply to Bloor's "Left and right Wittgensteinians" / Michael Lynch -- Epistemological chicken / H.M. Collins and Steven Yearley. Some remarks about positionism : a reply to Collins and Yearley / Steve Woolgar -- Don't throw the baby out with the bath school! : a reply to Collins and Yearley / Michel Callon and Bruno Latour -- Journey into space / H.M. Collins and Steven Yearley -- Social epistemology and the research agenda of science studies / Steve Fuller -- Border crossings : narrative strategies in science studies and among physicists in Tsukuba Science City, Japan / Sharon Traweek. 
<br/><br/> Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice--the work of doing science--and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the field of resources that practice operates in and on. Andrew Pickering has invited leading historians, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists of science to prepare original essays for this volume. The essays range over the physical and biological sciences and mathematics, and are divided into. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226668208 (electronic bk.) 0226668207 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Wittgenstein, Ludwig.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science--Social aspects.<br/>Knowledge, Theory of.<br/>Conocimiento, Teoría del.<br/>Sciences--Aspect social.<br/>Connaissance, Théorie de la.<br/>SCIENCE--Philosophy & Social Aspects.<br/>TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING--Social Aspects.<br/>Wetenschapssociologie.<br/>Kennissociologie.<br/>Sciences--Étude et enseignement.<br/>Sciences--Aspect social.<br/>Théorie de la connaissance.<br/>Sociologie des sciences.<br/>Kultur.<br/>Technologietransfer.<br/>Wissenschaftssoziologie.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Science  Related to  Society 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q175.5  / .S3495 1992eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>303.48/3 
<br/><br/><label>National Agricultural Library Call No.: </label>Q175.5.S3495  / 1992