The Social Process of Scientific Investigation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Discovery Accounts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Interaction between Theory and Data in Science

      • Marc De Mey

      Pages 3-23

   3. The Scientist as an Analogical Reasoner: A Critique of the Metaphor Theory of Innovation

      • Karin D. Knorr

      Pages 25-52

   4. Is it Possible to Reconstruct the Research Process?: Sociology of a Brain Peptide

      • B. Latour

      Pages 53-73

3. Dicovery Acceptance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Theoreticians and the Production of Experimental Anomaly: The Case of Solar Neutrinos

      • T. J. Pinch

      Pages 77-106

   3. The Role of Interests in High-Energy Physics

      • Andrew Pickering

      Pages 107-138

   4. The Effects of Social Context on the Process of Scientific Investigation: Experimental Tests of Quantum Mechanics

      • Bill Harvey

      Pages 139-163

   5. On The Construction of Creativity: The ‘Memory Transfer’ Phenomenon and the Importance of Being Earnest (1)

      • David Travis

      Pages 165-193

4. The Research Process

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Struggles and Negotiations to Define What is Problematic and What is Not

      • Michel Callon

      Pages 197-219

   3. The Development of an Interdisciplinary Project

      • Jan Bärmark, Göran Wallén

      Pages 221-235

5. Writing Public Accounts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 237-237

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   2. Discovery: Logic and Sequence in a Scientific Text (1)

      • Steve Woolgar

      Pages 239-268

   3. Contexts of Scientific Discourse: Social Accounting in Experimental Papers

      • Nigel Gilbert, Michael Mulkay

      Pages 269-294

6. The Context of Scientific Investigation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 295-295

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   2. The Context of Scientific Investigation

      • Richard Whitley

      Pages 297-321

7. Back Matter

   Pages 323-328

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practice, some of which is translated into the standard forms of public discourse, in publication, and then retranslated by readers and adapted again to local practice at self-selected other sites. Less may be left implicit, and additional personal and contextual information is carried, by the "informal" methods of communication which mediate local projects and international publication. But both methods of communication are screens as well as conduits of information. History and Background of the Volume When the planning of this volume began in the spring of 1977, it seemed a natural part of the mandate for the Yearbook. There had also been a number of more specific calls for deeper studies of research in social and historical context (3). These calls can be seen as giving permission and legitimacy to ask questions otherwise seen as irrelevant, or even disrespectful, and as attempts to develop new perspectives from which to ask and to answer them. The implied and expressed irreverence toward traditions and institutions of great respect may have prolonged this process of initial apologetics. In any case, in May 1977 the theme of 'The Social Process of Scientific Investigation' was proposed to the Editorial Board for Volume IV as "the heart of the subject. " That is, the ethnographic and detailed historical study of actual scientific activity and thinking at or close to the work site.

• Innovation
• Institution
• Nation
• Presse
• communication
• memory
• sociology

• University of Pennsylvania, USA

  Karin D. Knorr

• McGill University, Canada

  Roger Krohn

• Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, England

  Richard Whitley

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