Making Science : Between Nature and Society

Making Science : Between Nature and Society

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Book Description
The sociology of science is dominated today by relativists who boldly argue that the content of science is not primarily determined by evidence from the empirical world but is instead socially constructed in the laboratory. Making Science is the first serious critique by a sociologist of the social constructivist position. It argues that although the focus of scientific research, the rate of scientific advance, and indeed the everyday making of science are influenced by social variables and processes, the content of the core of science is constrained by nature.

About the Author
Stephen Cole is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Making Science: Between Nature and Society,Stephen Cole,Linda Gordon,Harvard University Press,0674543440,General,Science,Science/Mathematics,Sociology Of Science,Anthropology,Philosophy of science,Science / General

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