The professional quest for truth : a social theory of science and knowledge /

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Author / Creator:Fuchs, Stephan, 1958-
Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, c1992.
Description:xviii, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:SUNY series in science, technology, and society
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1339899
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ISBN:0791409236 (alk. paper) : $54.50
0791409244 (pbk. : alk. paper) : $18.95
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-245) and indexes.

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505 0 0 |t Preface /  |r Randall Collins --  |g Ch. 1.  |t Toward a Theory of Scientific Organizations --  |g Ch. 2.  |t The New Sociology of Science: Philosophical and Sociological Backgrounds.  |t Epistemological Critique.  |t The Issues of Relativism and Reflexivity.  |t The Strong Program: Entering the Black Box of Scientific Rationality --  |g Ch. 3.  |t Microsocial Studies of Science: The Empirical Evidence.  |t Facts.  |t Controversies and Closures.  |t Textuality.  |t Textual Agents.  |t Nontextual Agents.  |t Laboratories.  |t Property --  |g Ch. 4.  |t How Social are Social Studies of Science?  |t The Idiosyncratic Nature of Scientific Production.  |t The Social Dynamics of Fact Production.  |t Mundane and Scientific Knowledge.  |t Controversies as Normal Accidents --  |g Ch. 5.  |t The Technological Paradigm in Organizational Theory.  |t Woodward's Structural Types of Technology and Organization.  |t Perrow's Early Comparative Framework for Organization Analysis.  |t Thompson's Technological Interdependence Types.  |t Perrow's Later Comparative Framework for Organization Analysis.  |t Lawrence and Lorsch's Environmental Model of Organizational Structure.  |t Control Theory.  |t Current Debates in Organizational Theory --  |g Ch. 6.  |t Some Comparative Observations on Science and the Professions.  |t Task Uncertainty and Stratification.  |t Mutual Dependence and Professional Workstyles.  |t Science and Art: An Organizational Comparison.  |t Organizational Control in Modern Literature.  |t The Postmodern Equation of Science and Literature --  |g Ch. 7.  |t A Theory of Scientific Production.  |t Resource Concentration.  |t Reputational Autonomy.  |t Mutual Dependence, Heterogeneity, and Coordination Problems.  |t Size, Competition, and Change.  |t Cumulation.  |t Specialization.  |t Fragmentation.  |t Migration.  |t Task Uncertainty.  |t Bureaucratization of Control --  |g Ch. 8.  |t Hermeneutics as Deprofessionalization.  |t The Interpretive Paradigm in Sociology.  |t The Paradox of Interpretive Methodology.  |t Hermeneutics as Organizational Structure.  |t Subject Index /  |r John Herrman. 
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