Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line - Softcover

Gieryn, Thomas F. F.

 
9780226292625: Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226292622 ISBN 13: 9780226292625
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Why is science so credible? Usual answers center on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. In his new book, Thomas Gieryn argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims leave laboratories and enter courtrooms, boardrooms, and living rooms. On such occasions, we use "maps" to decide who to believe—cultural maps demarcating "science" from pseudoscience, ideology, faith, or nonsense.

Gieryn looks at episodes of boundary-work: Was phrenology good science? How about cold fusion? Is social science really scientific? Is organic farming? After centuries of disputes like these, Gieryn finds no stable criteria that absolutely distinguish science from non-science. Science remains a pliable cultural space, flexibly reshaped to claim credibility for some beliefs while denying it to others. In a timely epilogue, Gieryn finds this same controversy at the heart of the raging "science wars."




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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Thomas F. Gieryn is professor of sociology at Indiana University. He is the editor of three books, most recently of Theories of Science in Society.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226292622
ISBN 13 
9780226292625
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
412
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