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The notion of “scientific establishments” almost inevitably raises associations of the plethora of writings on the emergence of a “scientific power elite”, a “new priesthood”, the “scientific-estate”, “new mandarins” and the like (1). These concepts, the latest example of which is Gouldner’s “new class” of intellectuals, have some common assumptions.
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R. E. Lane. ‘The Decline of Politics and Ideology in a Knowlegde Society’, American Sociological Review 31, 658 (1966).
Cf. D. Nelkin, ‘Threats and Promises: Negotiating the Control of Research’, Daedalus 107, 2 (1978), 200.
Cf. A. K. Smith, A Peril and a Hope, The Scientists’ Movement in America 1945–47, Chicago, 1965.
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Weingart, P. (1982). The Scientific Power Elite — A Chimera; The De-Institutionalization and Politicization of Science. In: Elias, N., Martins, H., Whitley, R. (eds) Scientific Establishments and Hierarchies. Sociology of the Sciences a Yearbook, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7729-7_2
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