Thomas F Gieryn
Biographic Data
| ID | 253679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas F Gieryn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas F |
| FAMILY NAME | Gieryn |
| SIGNATURE | GIERYN T F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 59 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2878 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 59 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display (Levitt)
This work is a book review considering the title Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display by Peggy Levitt
Science, Sociology of
Place and culture-making: Geographic clumping in the emergence of artistic schools
Laboratory Design for Post-Fordist Science
What is the state of science these days such that one laboratory in particular—the Clark Center at Stanford—often gets singled out as the right place for the job? The design of new buildings for research must respect architectural and technical conventions that have long defined the essence of a laboratory or risk becoming so idiosyncratic that suspicions are raised about the worthiness of claims made inside. And yet the material form of the labo…
City as Truth-Spot: Laboratories and Field-Sites in Urban Studies
How does ‘place’ contribute to the credibility of scientific claims? The Chicago School of urban studies (1918-32) had close ties to the city for which it was named: its social scientists lived in Chicago, were affiliated with the University of Chicago, and made Chicago the object of almost all of their empirical research. In order for this city to become a legitimate source of claims about urban form and process, Chicago is textually made to osc…
Science of Science and Reflexivity
Radical space: Building the house of the people
Merton, Teacher
The landscape of history: How historians map the past
Eloge: Robert K. Merton, 1910-2003
Give Place a Chance: Reply to Gans
What buildings do
Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times
Journal Article Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times. By Steve Fuller. (Chicago: University of Chicag o Press, 2000. xviii, 472 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-226-26894-2.) Get access Thomas F. Gieryn Thomas F. Gieryn Indiana UniversityBloomington, Indiana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 1169–1170, https://doi.org/10.2307/2700547 Publi…
Toward a Global Science: Mining Civilizational Knowledge
Asian science such as mathematics, Chinese printing, gunpowder and the compass, all contributed to the development of European science. During the last few centuries, however, scientific contributions with Asian roots have diminished and been marginalized and deligitimised. Yet the center of the world economy today is shifting to Asia with shifts in science and technology bound to follow. Toward a Global Science is driven by the proposition that …
A Space for Place in Sociology
Sociological studies sensitive to the issue of place are rarely labeled thus, and at the same time there are far too many of them to fit in this review. It may be a good thing that this research is seldom gathered up as a 'sociology of place,' for that could ghettoize the subject as something of interest only to geographers, architects, or environmental historians. The point of this review is to indicate that sociologists have a stake in place no…
Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the Line
Defining Science: A Rhetoric of Demarcation
Impure Science: Aids, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
At the Fringes of Science . Michael W. Friedlander
Boundaries of Science
Boundaries of Science
The working title of this Handbook presumed three neatly bounded territories: science, technology, and society. This chapter makes those territories and especially their borders into objects for sociological interpretation and seeks to recover their messiness, contentiousness, and practical significance in everyday life. Its focus is on the “boundary problem” in science and technology studies: Where does science leave off, and society — or techno…
Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change ed. by Wiebe E. Bijker, John Law
438 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE conquered the American West and its frontier back in the 19th century. Alaska was simply the logical extension of that frontier, and it too needed to be conquered. That promoters of the pipeline and others used such frontier rhetoric is not by itself all that surprising. Frontier ideology has long occupied a place at the center of American culture. Thus the book left me feeling rather disappointed. One is h…
Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change
Social Studies of Science. Bernard Barber
Theories of science in society
Sociologists of science have, over the past three decades or so, learned a great deal about the social organization of scientific communities and about the social construction of scientific knowledge. But progress has been relatively modest toward understanding the reciprocal relationships between science and its social, political, economic, organizational, and cultural settings. How should we think about the place of science in modern societies?…
Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists
The demarcation of from other intellectual activities-long an analytic problem for philosophers and sociologists-is here examined as a practical problem for scientists. Construction of a boundary between and varieties of non-science is useful for scientists' pursuit of professional goals: acquisition of intellectual authority and career opportunities; denial of these resources to pseudoscientists; and protection of the autonomy of scientific rese…
A Space for Place in Sociology
Sociological studies sensitive to the issue of place are rarely labeled thus, and at the same time there are far too many of them to fit in this review. It may be a good thing that this research is seldom gathered up as a 'sociology of place,' for that could ghettoize the subject as something of interest only to geographers, architects, or environmental historians. The point of this review is to indicate that sociologists have a stake in place no…
City as Truth-Spot: Laboratories and Field-Sites in Urban Studies
How does ‘place’ contribute to the credibility of scientific claims? The Chicago School of urban studies (1918-32) had close ties to the city for which it was named: its social scientists lived in Chicago, were affiliated with the University of Chicago, and made Chicago the object of almost all of their empirical research. In order for this city to become a legitimate source of claims about urban form and process, Chicago is textually made to osc…
What buildings do
Professionalization of American Scientists: Public Science in the Creation/ Evolution Trials
The boundary between and religion has long been a site for cultural and professional conflict. We examine the testimony of scientists at the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 and at the McLean Creation-Science trial in 1981-82. The two trials were public occasions for scientists to present ideologies of .that legitimated their professional claims to cognitive authority, public financing and control over part of the public school curriculum. The rhetori…
Relativist/Constructivist Programmes in the Sociology of Science: Redundance and Retreat
Two recent collections of empirical reports claim to offer a new and possibly more effective agenda for the sociology of science. These claims are challenged. The `relativist' and `constructivist' programmes yield findings often of historical or ethnographic interest, but rarely new when compared to earlier theoretical writings. Moreover, methodological and metatheoretical assumptions of the programmes force a retreat from the constitutive questi…
New Directions in Sociological Theory
Laboratory Design for Post-Fordist Science
What is the state of science these days such that one laboratory in particular—the Clark Center at Stanford—often gets singled out as the right place for the job? The design of new buildings for research must respect architectural and technical conventions that have long defined the essence of a laboratory or risk becoming so idiosyncratic that suspicions are raised about the worthiness of claims made inside. And yet the material form of the labo…
Problem Retention and Problem Change in Science
Science of Science and Reflexivity
Distancing Science from Religion in Seventeenth-Century England
Marginality and Innovation in Science
Sociologists and historians of science have frequently used the concept of the `marginal man' to describe those most likely to contribute major scientific innovations. An examination of X-ray astronomy during its formative years (1960-75) suggests that `marginal' scientists are no more likely than others to contribute innovations, a finding contrary to most other studies. Moreover, the concept of marginality is, in its present use, so ambiguous a…
Place and culture-making: Geographic clumping in the emergence of artistic schools
Not-Last Words: Worn-Out Dichotomies in the Sociology of Science (Reply)
The measure of a scholarly debate may not be consensus, but a more accurate appreciation of disagreements. The exchange which, for the moment, stops here is thus successful inasmuch as its identifies dichotomies which can no longer meaningfully separate relativists and constructivists, from themselves or from others. This reply cannot serve as a 'last word', since it seeks only to retire worn-out lines of argument, leaving genuine ones for future…
Give Place a Chance: Reply to Gans
Shaping Technology/Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change
Merton, Teacher
Eloge: Robert K. Merton, 1910-2003
Opening Pandora's Box: A Sociological Analysis of Scientists' Discourse
Impure Science: Aids, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge
Social Studies of Science. Bernard Barber
Marginalia: Reply to Simonton and Handberg
Neither Simonton' nor Handberg2 dispute the core finding of our paper:3 each of the 98 X-ray astronomers in our sample (some innovators, others not) is 'marginal', when marginality is determined by empirical indicators used in previous studies. The hypothesis that marginality causes scientific innovation becomes trivially true, if only because the biography of any innovative scientist is almost certain to include at least one attribute that indic…
New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretative Sociologies
New Directions in Sociological Theory
Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein
Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein
The highly acclaimed first edition of this major work convincingly established Gerald Holton's analysis of the ways scientific ideas evolve. His concept of themata, induced from case studies with special attention to the work of Einstein, has become one of the chief tools for understanding scientific progress. It is now one of the main approaches in the study of the initiation and acceptance of individual scientific insights. Three principal cons…
Trying Sociology. Kurt H. Wolff
Positivism and Sociology
Astronomy Transformed: The Emergence of Radio Astronomy in Britain
New Rules of Sociological Method: A Positive Critique of Interpretative Sociologies
Demands for Social Knowledge: The Role of Research Organisations. Elisabeth Crawford , Norman Perry Quality, Careers and Training in Educational and Social Research. Caroline Hodges Persell
Problem Retention and Problem Change in Science
The Evolution of Evolution
The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change. Thomas S. Kuhn
Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge. Donald A. MacKenzie
Not-Last Words: Worn-Out Dichotomies in the Sociology of Science (Reply)
The measure of a scholarly debate may not be consensus, but a more accurate appreciation of disagreements. The exchange which, for the moment, stops here is thus successful inasmuch as its identifies dichotomies which can no longer meaningfully separate relativists and constructivists, from themselves or from others. This reply cannot serve as a 'last word', since it seeks only to retire worn-out lines of argument, leaving genuine ones for future…
Relativist/Constructivist Programmes in the Sociology of Science: Redundance and Retreat
Two recent collections of empirical reports claim to offer a new and possibly more effective agenda for the sociology of science. These claims are challenged. The `relativist' and `constructivist' programmes yield findings often of historical or ethnographic interest, but rarely new when compared to earlier theoretical writings. Moreover, methodological and metatheoretical assumptions of the programmes force a retreat from the constitutive questi…
Durkheim's sociology of scientific knowledge
Durkheim's thinking on scientific knowledge reveals several contradictions, resulting from the relativist implications of his substantive theory of culture and the positivist assumptions of his metatheoretical definition of scientific methods in sociology. In his explanations of historical and cross-cultural differences in „truthful”︁ representations of reality, Durkheim suggests that logical and conceptual structures of knowledge are determined …
Marginality and Innovation in Science
Sociologists and historians of science have frequently used the concept of the `marginal man' to describe those most likely to contribute major scientific innovations. An examination of X-ray astronomy during its formative years (1960-75) suggests that `marginal' scientists are no more likely than others to contribute innovations, a finding contrary to most other studies. Moreover, the concept of marginality is, in its present use, so ambiguous a…
Sciences and Cultures: Anthropological and Historical Studies of the Sciences
A Programmatic Attempt at an Anthropology of Knowledge.- On the Boundaries of Science in Seventeenth-Century England.- What Should We Do with the Monster?: Electromagnetism and the Psychosociology of Knowledge.- Science and Modern Chinese Culture.- The Meaning Context of Illness and Care: Reflections on a Central Theme in the Anthropology of Medicine.- The Semantics of Medical Discourse.- The Necessity of Field Methods in the Study of Scientific …
Polemics in Sonata Form
Quality in Science . Marcel C. La Follette
Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists
The demarcation of from other intellectual activities-long an analytic problem for philosophers and sociologists-is here examined as a practical problem for scientists. Construction of a boundary between and varieties of non-science is useful for scientists' pursuit of professional goals: acquisition of intellectual authority and career opportunities; denial of these resources to pseudoscientists; and protection of the autonomy of scientific rese…
Marginalia: Reply to Simonton and Handberg
Neither Simonton' nor Handberg2 dispute the core finding of our paper:3 each of the 98 X-ray astronomers in our sample (some innovators, others not) is 'marginal', when marginality is determined by empirical indicators used in previous studies. The hypothesis that marginality causes scientific innovation becomes trivially true, if only because the biography of any innovative scientist is almost certain to include at least one attribute that indic…
Functions and Uses of Disciplinary History . Loren Graham, Wolf Lepenies, Peter Weingart
Opening Pandora's Box: A Sociological Analysis of Scientists' Discourse
Professionalization of American Scientists: Public Science in the Creation/ Evolution Trials
The boundary between and religion has long been a site for cultural and professional conflict. We examine the testimony of scientists at the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 and at the McLean Creation-Science trial in 1981-82. The two trials were public occasions for scientists to present ideologies of .that legitimated their professional claims to cognitive authority, public financing and control over part of the public school curriculum. The rhetori…
The Cambridge Meeting, November 1-4, 1984
Organizational Notes THE CAMBRIDGE MEETING, NOVEMBER 1-4, 1984 More than 250 people attended the twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,. Cambridge, November 1-4, 1984. Jeffrey Sturchio (Center for History of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania) chaired the Program Committee, which included Susan Douglas (Hampshire College) and Stuart W. Leslie ( Johns Hopkins Univ…
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