Anne Marcovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 761380 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Marcovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Marcovich |
| SIGNATURE | MARCOVICH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maison des Sciences de l'Homme |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Transformation of a Science by a “Technology”
This article explores the transformations of an area of scientific research provoked by the introduction of big data and the possibilities to treat them by Artificial Intelligence. We study these transformations in contemporary astrophysics as it has developed over the last thirty years. These transformations extend from cognitive work procedures to information processing, systems of collaboration between scientists, epistemology and terrain of q…
When two science disciplines meet
This article points out some issues raised by the encounter between astrophysics (AP) and a newly emergent mathematical tool/discipline, namely artificial intelligence (AI). We suggest that this encounter has interesting consequences in terms of science evaluation. Our discussion favors an intra science perspective, both on the institutional and cognitive side. This encounter between machine learning (ML) and astrophysics points to three differen…
Science research regimes as architectures of knowledge in context
The purpose of this historical-sociological study is to identify the different intellectual and organizational structures and paths adopted by science over the ages. These forms are what we call science research regimes. Our perspective is simultaneously historical, sociological and comparative. We propose a socio-historical framework that points out transverse structures in science and their changing dynamics, in a 'longue durée' perspective. Hi…
How scientific research instruments change
This article explores structures of intellectual, operational and institutional transformations of scientific research instrumentation in the 20th century. The study of 26 Nobel Prizes in physics instrumentation between 1901 and the present yields abundant and systematic information related to change and stability of instrument function, instrument trajectory and the social organization of instrument-related work. This yields three configurations…
Section 'Toward a historical sociology of scientific research instrumentation
Quelle disciplinarité pour la recherche à l’échelle nano
Les analyses d’histoire et de sociologie des sciences ont souvent pour pôle d’investigation les structures, l’organisation et le fonctionnement des disciplines scientifiques, les différences entre disciplinarité et interdisciplinarité devenant un champ de réflexion privilégié. En effet, des affrontements entre les partisans de la disciplinarité et ceux de l’interdisciplinarité se développent sur les terrains académiques, politiques et économiques…
Respiration and Cognitive Synergy
Regimes of science production and diffusion
This article is a contribution to the critical sociology of science perspective introduced and developed by Pierre Bourdieu. The paper proposes a transversalist theory of science and technology production and diffusion. It is here argued that science and technology are comprised of multiple regimes where each regime is historically grounded, possesses its own division of labour, modes of cognitive and artifact production and has specific audience…
Robert K. Merton
Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) is generally perceived as the father of the sociology of science. In our article we will present the major claims of Merton’s classical analysis of the 17th century origins of English science and the important gaps in this study. The content of Merton’s famous scientific norms will also be summarized accompanied by discussion of their alternative and contradictory meaning. Finally, we present the concept of the “Mathi…
From the Triple Helix to a Quadruple Helix? The Case of Dip-Pen Nanolithography
Instrument Research, Tools, and the Knowledge Enterprise 1999-2009
This article retraces the trajectory of a start-up company NanoInk Inc. and its primary technology, the Dip-Pen, which it researches, manufactures, and commercializes. The case is of interest because it introduces a series of under elucidated questions concerning the relationships between "instrument" and "tool," the birth of a new category of company, the "knowledge enterprise," the dynamics of relations between complexity and simplicity related…
Where is disciplinarity going? Meeting on the borderland
This article analyzes the cognitive structures and dynamics of a form of scientific discipline that differs importantly both from the disciplinary format of the 19th-century university system, and from the profile proposed by much postmodern interdisciplinary (anti-disciplinary) discussion. This recent form of discipline, here termed the 'new disciplinarity', is a product of the increasing complexity of scientific knowledge and activity. The appr…
Socio/intellectual patterns in nanoscale research
The Feynman Nanotechnology Prize was established in 1993, and has been awarded annually since 1997, for theory and experimentation. On the basis of a series of interviews with Prize laureates, this article clarifies the principal theoretical and experimental questions at stake in nanoscale research, changes in methodological procedures, epistemological orientations and disciplinary foci. Nanobiology is emerging as a prominent discipline; simulati…
Cognitive/organizational blocks
The present article seeks to deploy a classical taxonomy for description of the features and dynamics of the organizational frameworks that accompany the research endeavors which have arisen in some very spectacular, expensive or intellectually promising science research fields in recent decades, such as high-energy physics, nanoscience and nanotechnology (NST), and cryogenic-driven exploration of dark matter and associated events. Such a taxonom…
Formas do vivo e no vivo
As questões relativas às formas e à morfologia adquiriram depois do século xviii uma posição central nas ciências e, particularmente, na biologia. Desde 1890, as formas surgiram na bioquímica a partir da noção de especificidade (fala-se da adequação entre moléculas como daquela entre uma chave e uma fechadura). As diferentes orientações na biologia (particularmente depois da revolução da biologia molecular, do desenvolvimento da biologia sistêmic…
Sylvie Fainzang, Médicaments et société
Aller chez un médecin, se voir prescrire une ordonnance, acheter ensuite les médicaments et en gérer l’utilisation... autant de comportements en apparence sans lien avec les traditions culturelles auxquelles se rattachent les protagonistes. C’est pourtant sur ces conduites que Sylvie Fainzang s’est penchée, cherchant à retrouver dans les gestes les plus infimes, dans les pratiques les plus anodines, celles précisément qui semblent le moins chargé…
Where is disciplinarity going? Meeting on the borderland
This article analyzes the cognitive structures and dynamics of a form of scientific discipline that differs importantly both from the disciplinary format of the 19th-century university system, and from the profile proposed by much postmodern interdisciplinary (anti-disciplinary) discussion. This recent form of discipline, here termed the 'new disciplinarity', is a product of the increasing complexity of scientific knowledge and activity. The appr…
Regimes of science production and diffusion
This article is a contribution to the critical sociology of science perspective introduced and developed by Pierre Bourdieu. The paper proposes a transversalist theory of science and technology production and diffusion. It is here argued that science and technology are comprised of multiple regimes where each regime is historically grounded, possesses its own division of labour, modes of cognitive and artifact production and has specific audience…
From the Triple Helix to a Quadruple Helix? The Case of Dip-Pen Nanolithography
Socio/intellectual patterns in nanoscale research
The Feynman Nanotechnology Prize was established in 1993, and has been awarded annually since 1997, for theory and experimentation. On the basis of a series of interviews with Prize laureates, this article clarifies the principal theoretical and experimental questions at stake in nanoscale research, changes in methodological procedures, epistemological orientations and disciplinary foci. Nanobiology is emerging as a prominent discipline; simulati…
Science research regimes as architectures of knowledge in context
The purpose of this historical-sociological study is to identify the different intellectual and organizational structures and paths adopted by science over the ages. These forms are what we call science research regimes. Our perspective is simultaneously historical, sociological and comparative. We propose a socio-historical framework that points out transverse structures in science and their changing dynamics, in a 'longue durée' perspective. Hi…
Respiration and Cognitive Synergy
Instrument Research, Tools, and the Knowledge Enterprise 1999-2009
This article retraces the trajectory of a start-up company NanoInk Inc. and its primary technology, the Dip-Pen, which it researches, manufactures, and commercializes. The case is of interest because it introduces a series of under elucidated questions concerning the relationships between "instrument" and "tool," the birth of a new category of company, the "knowledge enterprise," the dynamics of relations between complexity and simplicity related…
The Transformation of a Science by a “Technology”
This article explores the transformations of an area of scientific research provoked by the introduction of big data and the possibilities to treat them by Artificial Intelligence. We study these transformations in contemporary astrophysics as it has developed over the last thirty years. These transformations extend from cognitive work procedures to information processing, systems of collaboration between scientists, epistemology and terrain of q…
When two science disciplines meet
This article points out some issues raised by the encounter between astrophysics (AP) and a newly emergent mathematical tool/discipline, namely artificial intelligence (AI). We suggest that this encounter has interesting consequences in terms of science evaluation. Our discussion favors an intra science perspective, both on the institutional and cognitive side. This encounter between machine learning (ML) and astrophysics points to three differen…
How scientific research instruments change
This article explores structures of intellectual, operational and institutional transformations of scientific research instrumentation in the 20th century. The study of 26 Nobel Prizes in physics instrumentation between 1901 and the present yields abundant and systematic information related to change and stability of instrument function, instrument trajectory and the social organization of instrument-related work. This yields three configurations…
Cognitive/organizational blocks
The present article seeks to deploy a classical taxonomy for description of the features and dynamics of the organizational frameworks that accompany the research endeavors which have arisen in some very spectacular, expensive or intellectually promising science research fields in recent decades, such as high-energy physics, nanoscience and nanotechnology (NST), and cryogenic-driven exploration of dark matter and associated events. Such a taxonom…
Sylvie Fainzang, Médicaments et société
Aller chez un médecin, se voir prescrire une ordonnance, acheter ensuite les médicaments et en gérer l’utilisation... autant de comportements en apparence sans lien avec les traditions culturelles auxquelles se rattachent les protagonistes. C’est pourtant sur ces conduites que Sylvie Fainzang s’est penchée, cherchant à retrouver dans les gestes les plus infimes, dans les pratiques les plus anodines, celles précisément qui semblent le moins chargé…
Formas do vivo e no vivo
As questões relativas às formas e à morfologia adquiriram depois do século xviii uma posição central nas ciências e, particularmente, na biologia. Desde 1890, as formas surgiram na bioquímica a partir da noção de especificidade (fala-se da adequação entre moléculas como daquela entre uma chave e uma fechadura). As diferentes orientações na biologia (particularmente depois da revolução da biologia molecular, do desenvolvimento da biologia sistêmic…
Cognitive/organizational blocks
The present article seeks to deploy a classical taxonomy for description of the features and dynamics of the organizational frameworks that accompany the research endeavors which have arisen in some very spectacular, expensive or intellectually promising science research fields in recent decades, such as high-energy physics, nanoscience and nanotechnology (NST), and cryogenic-driven exploration of dark matter and associated events. Such a taxonom…
Socio/intellectual patterns in nanoscale research
The Feynman Nanotechnology Prize was established in 1993, and has been awarded annually since 1997, for theory and experimentation. On the basis of a series of interviews with Prize laureates, this article clarifies the principal theoretical and experimental questions at stake in nanoscale research, changes in methodological procedures, epistemological orientations and disciplinary foci. Nanobiology is emerging as a prominent discipline; simulati…
Robert K. Merton
Robert K. Merton (1910-2003) is generally perceived as the father of the sociology of science. In our article we will present the major claims of Merton’s classical analysis of the 17th century origins of English science and the important gaps in this study. The content of Merton’s famous scientific norms will also be summarized accompanied by discussion of their alternative and contradictory meaning. Finally, we present the concept of the “Mathi…
From the Triple Helix to a Quadruple Helix? The Case of Dip-Pen Nanolithography
Instrument Research, Tools, and the Knowledge Enterprise 1999-2009
This article retraces the trajectory of a start-up company NanoInk Inc. and its primary technology, the Dip-Pen, which it researches, manufactures, and commercializes. The case is of interest because it introduces a series of under elucidated questions concerning the relationships between "instrument" and "tool," the birth of a new category of company, the "knowledge enterprise," the dynamics of relations between complexity and simplicity related…
Where is disciplinarity going? Meeting on the borderland
This article analyzes the cognitive structures and dynamics of a form of scientific discipline that differs importantly both from the disciplinary format of the 19th-century university system, and from the profile proposed by much postmodern interdisciplinary (anti-disciplinary) discussion. This recent form of discipline, here termed the 'new disciplinarity', is a product of the increasing complexity of scientific knowledge and activity. The appr…
Regimes of science production and diffusion
This article is a contribution to the critical sociology of science perspective introduced and developed by Pierre Bourdieu. The paper proposes a transversalist theory of science and technology production and diffusion. It is here argued that science and technology are comprised of multiple regimes where each regime is historically grounded, possesses its own division of labour, modes of cognitive and artifact production and has specific audience…
Respiration and Cognitive Synergy
Quelle disciplinarité pour la recherche à l’échelle nano
Les analyses d’histoire et de sociologie des sciences ont souvent pour pôle d’investigation les structures, l’organisation et le fonctionnement des disciplines scientifiques, les différences entre disciplinarité et interdisciplinarité devenant un champ de réflexion privilégié. En effet, des affrontements entre les partisans de la disciplinarité et ceux de l’interdisciplinarité se développent sur les terrains académiques, politiques et économiques…
How scientific research instruments change
This article explores structures of intellectual, operational and institutional transformations of scientific research instrumentation in the 20th century. The study of 26 Nobel Prizes in physics instrumentation between 1901 and the present yields abundant and systematic information related to change and stability of instrument function, instrument trajectory and the social organization of instrument-related work. This yields three configurations…
Section 'Toward a historical sociology of scientific research instrumentation
Science research regimes as architectures of knowledge in context
The purpose of this historical-sociological study is to identify the different intellectual and organizational structures and paths adopted by science over the ages. These forms are what we call science research regimes. Our perspective is simultaneously historical, sociological and comparative. We propose a socio-historical framework that points out transverse structures in science and their changing dynamics, in a 'longue durée' perspective. Hi…
When two science disciplines meet
This article points out some issues raised by the encounter between astrophysics (AP) and a newly emergent mathematical tool/discipline, namely artificial intelligence (AI). We suggest that this encounter has interesting consequences in terms of science evaluation. Our discussion favors an intra science perspective, both on the institutional and cognitive side. This encounter between machine learning (ML) and astrophysics points to three differen…
The Transformation of a Science by a “Technology”
This article explores the transformations of an area of scientific research provoked by the introduction of big data and the possibilities to treat them by Artificial Intelligence. We study these transformations in contemporary astrophysics as it has developed over the last thirty years. These transformations extend from cognitive work procedures to information processing, systems of collaboration between scientists, epistemology and terrain of q…
Philosophy (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Epistemology (11 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Physics (5 works) · Cognitive science (4 works)