Knowledge and reflexivity : new frontiers in the sociology of knowledge

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Knowledge and reflexivity : new frontiers in the sociology of knowledge

edited by Steve Woolgar

Sage, 1991, c1988

1st paperback ed

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [201]-210

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

"Knowledge and Reflexivity" is an exploration of the significance of the concept of reflexivity for sociology in particular and the social sciences in general. Concern with reflexivity arises from work in the social studies of science, which has shown that knowledge in the natural sciences is a product of social, cultural, historical and political processes. The book argues that it is high time that social science itself is seen as generated by those forces, and explores the consequences of reflexivity for social theory, social research and the practice of social science.

Table of Contents

  • The next step - an introduction to the reflexive project, Steve Woolgar and Malcolm Ashmore
  • reflexivity is the ethnographer of the text, Steve Woolgar
  • what is reflexive about discourse analysis?, Jonathan Potter
  • whose discourse?, Teri Walker
  • Don Quixote's double, Michael Mulkay
  • accounting for accounts of the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, Anna Wynne
  • the life and opinions of a replication claim, Malcolm Ashmore
  • the politics and explanation, Bruno Latour
  • reservations about reflexivity and new literary forms or why let the devil have all the good tunes?, Trevor Pinch.

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  • NCID
    BA13679773
  • ISBN
    • 080398121X
  • LCCN
    87051528
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 214 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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