Pam Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 3919707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pam Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pam |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Automatic Vehicle Identification
Two contrasting theories-actor-network theory and nondecision making-are separately applied to the same case study, namely, technologies for automatically identifying road vehicles. By this process, the strengths and weaknesses of each approach are highlighted: The actor-network approach is useful for understanding local processes but lacks tools for easily illuminating patterns across countries; by contrast, the concept of nondecision making is …
Who's a Captive? Who's a Victim? Response to Collins's Method Talk
We are grateful to Harry Collins for clarifying his own assumptions about science and social science. He argues for neutrality as a methodological prescription. It was precisely our aim to argue against this. We begin here by specifying three difficulties with the prescription of methodological neutrality for controversy studies: interaction with the debate, selection and deployment of methods, and social influences on methods. The latter two dif…
Levers and Counterweights
According to Bruno Latour in his paper `Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Raise the World', laboratories are irreplaceable sources of political strength which override traditional political forces. Latour's conclusions are based on a study of Pasteur and his work with anthrax in nineteenth-century France. This paper takes as a case study a contemporary Australian laboratory established to work on exotic animal disease viruses, including Foot-and-Mo…
Captives of Controversy
According to both traditional positivist approaches and also to the sociology of scientific knowledge, social analysts should not themselves become involved in the controversies they are investigating. But the experiences of the authors in studying contemporary scientific controversies-specifically, over the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, fluoridation, and vitamin C and cancer-show that analysts, whatever their intentions, cannot avoid bein…
The Social Shaping of a Laboratory
Technologies are often presented and perceived as being inevitable, natural and necessary, as if they were the products of some inner logic. As a result, there has been a tendency in the past to focus on the effect or impact a technology has on society at the expense of investigating the origin of the technology. More recently, efforts have been made to penetrate the ‘black box’ of the technological artifact in order to reveal the variety of ways…
Captives of Controversy
According to both traditional positivist approaches and also to the sociology of scientific knowledge, social analysts should not themselves become involved in the controversies they are investigating. But the experiences of the authors in studying contemporary scientific controversies-specifically, over the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, fluoridation, and vitamin C and cancer-show that analysts, whatever their intentions, cannot avoid bein…
Levers and Counterweights
According to Bruno Latour in his paper `Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Raise the World', laboratories are irreplaceable sources of political strength which override traditional political forces. Latour's conclusions are based on a study of Pasteur and his work with anthrax in nineteenth-century France. This paper takes as a case study a contemporary Australian laboratory established to work on exotic animal disease viruses, including Foot-and-Mo…
Who's a Captive? Who's a Victim? Response to Collins's Method Talk
We are grateful to Harry Collins for clarifying his own assumptions about science and social science. He argues for neutrality as a methodological prescription. It was precisely our aim to argue against this. We begin here by specifying three difficulties with the prescription of methodological neutrality for controversy studies: interaction with the debate, selection and deployment of methods, and social influences on methods. The latter two dif…
Automatic Vehicle Identification
Two contrasting theories-actor-network theory and nondecision making-are separately applied to the same case study, namely, technologies for automatically identifying road vehicles. By this process, the strengths and weaknesses of each approach are highlighted: The actor-network approach is useful for understanding local processes but lacks tools for easily illuminating patterns across countries; by contrast, the concept of nondecision making is …
The Social Shaping of a Laboratory
Technologies are often presented and perceived as being inevitable, natural and necessary, as if they were the products of some inner logic. As a result, there has been a tendency in the past to focus on the effect or impact a technology has on society at the expense of investigating the origin of the technology. More recently, efforts have been made to penetrate the ‘black box’ of the technological artifact in order to reveal the variety of ways…
Captives of Controversy
According to both traditional positivist approaches and also to the sociology of scientific knowledge, social analysts should not themselves become involved in the controversies they are investigating. But the experiences of the authors in studying contemporary scientific controversies-specifically, over the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, fluoridation, and vitamin C and cancer-show that analysts, whatever their intentions, cannot avoid bein…
Who's a Captive? Who's a Victim? Response to Collins's Method Talk
We are grateful to Harry Collins for clarifying his own assumptions about science and social science. He argues for neutrality as a methodological prescription. It was precisely our aim to argue against this. We begin here by specifying three difficulties with the prescription of methodological neutrality for controversy studies: interaction with the debate, selection and deployment of methods, and social influences on methods. The latter two dif…
Levers and Counterweights
According to Bruno Latour in his paper `Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Raise the World', laboratories are irreplaceable sources of political strength which override traditional political forces. Latour's conclusions are based on a study of Pasteur and his work with anthrax in nineteenth-century France. This paper takes as a case study a contemporary Australian laboratory established to work on exotic animal disease viruses, including Foot-and-Mo…
Automatic Vehicle Identification
Two contrasting theories-actor-network theory and nondecision making-are separately applied to the same case study, namely, technologies for automatically identifying road vehicles. By this process, the strengths and weaknesses of each approach are highlighted: The actor-network approach is useful for understanding local processes but lacks tools for easily illuminating patterns across countries; by contrast, the concept of nondecision making is …
Epistemology (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Engineering ethics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Biology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works)