Sociology of Science and Technology

Topics

• — Introduction to the Course
• — Philosophical Foundations: Popper vs Kuhn
• Trout's The Philosophy of Science, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press
• — Mertonian Sociology of Science
• Robert Merton "The Normative Structure of Science," pp 267-280 and “The Mathew Effect in Science,”
• pp 439-459 both in Robert Merton's The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations
• Trevor Pinch. 1997. “Kuhn: Conservative and Radical Interpretations: Are some
• Mertonians Kuhnians and some Kuhnians Mertonians?” Social Studies of Science, 27
• — Cultural and Ethnographic studies of Science
• Mitroy, lan. 1974. "Norms and Counter-Norms in a Select Group of the Apollo Moon Scientists: A Case
• Study of the Ambivalence of Scientists," American Sociological Review, 39
• Pinch, Trevor. 1985. “Theory Testing in Science — The Case of Solar Neutrinos: Do Crucial
• Experiments test Theories or Theorists?” Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 15
• Bruno Latour and Actor-Network Theory
• More Turn after the Social Turn,” pp 276-289, both in Mario Biagioli’s The Science Studies
• Reader. NY: Routledge
• Science and Fields of Power
• Reason," Social Science Information, 14