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Early practitioners of the social studies of science turned their attention away from questions of institutionalization, which had tended to emphasize macrolevel explanations, and attended instead to microstudies of laboratory practice. Though sympathetic to this approach as the microstudies included in this book attest the author is interested in re-investigating certain aspects of institution formation, notably the formation of scientific, medical, and engineering disciplines. He emphasizes the manner in which science as cultural practice is imbricated with other forms of social, political, and even aesthetic practices. This book offers case studies that reexamine certain critical junctures in the traditional historical picture of the evolution of the role of the scientist in modern Western society. It focuses especially on the establishment of new disciplines within German research universities in the nineteenth century, the problematic relationship that emerged between science, industry, and the state at the turn of the twentieth century, and post-World War II developments in science and technology.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Instituting Science
• Author: Timothy Lenoir
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382
• EAN: 9780804729253
• ISBN: 0804729255
• ID: 04164047
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 544 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 1997

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