The Professional Quest for Truth
A Social Theory of Science and Knowledge
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11090342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ulf Torgersen (corresponding author), Stephan Fuch (0000-0002-1766-196X) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 495 |
| Publication date | 1993-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2074373 |
| OpenAlex | W2115607881 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Epistemology · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Big data and cumulation in the social sciences
Agency in compliance with institutions
How Does Grounded Theory Explain
Science, the public, and social elites
Metatheory as Cognitive Style
Social Dimensions of Epistemological Disputes
E-Sciences as research technologies
When the mirrors have tails—thematizing reflexivity, subjectivity and social order in sociological theory
Filling the World with Self-Esteem
The Joy of Science
Mythic Facts and Park's Pragmatism
The Exxon Factor
What’s the Deal with the Web/Blogs/the Next Big Technology
Unsettled Settlers
Beating the Bounds
The Composite State
A tale of two cognitions
Another View of Translation Manuals and the Study of Science
Science of science
Toward an Anthropology of Fragments, Instabilities, and Incomplete Transitions
Domestic Matters
Ethnography in/of Transnational Processes
Toward a radical interactionist account of science
Die Rolle der Universitäten in der Ausdifferenzierung von Wissenschaft. Soziologie in Deutschland und den USA
George Herbert Mead
World Ordering
Wissenschaft, die Grenzen schafft
Consensus and knowledge production in an academic field
Untangling Context
Politicized Scholarship? Science on Crime and the State
Beyond Hyper-Constructivist Fads and Foibles
Streams of Thought
The local and global structure of knowledge production in an emergent research field
The Margins of Underdog Sociology
Seizing the Middle Ground
Think Tanks, Funding, and the Politics of Policy Knowledge in Canada
Abortion rhetoric in American news coverage of the human cloning debate
The Sociology of Teaching Graduate Statistics
The Social Production of Postmodern Skepticism
Two Worlds of Academic Publishing
Criminological Knowledge
Theoretical stances and environmental debates
The incorporation of gender scholarship into sociology
Whither Criminology? The Search for a Paradigm Over the Last Half Century
Socially unrecognized cumulation
What is Deconstruction, and Where and When Does it Take Place? Making Facts in Science, Building Cases in Law
Managing Laboratory Work through Skepticism
Irreconcilable Differences? Examining Divergences in the Orientations of Criminology and Criminal Justice Scholarship, 1951–2008
In or out? International community membership
Theory Development and Application in Higher Education Research
Supervision and Early Career Work Experiences of Estonian Humanities Researchers Under the Conditions of Project-based Funding
In the shadow of the deconstructed metanarratives
An Alternative Metacritique of Postcolonial Cultural Studies From a Cultural Sociological Perspective
Kuznets’s Inverted U-Curve Hypothesis
Karl Mannheim and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
In der Mathematik ist ein Streit mit Sicherheit zu entscheiden“ Perspektiven einer Soziologie der Mathematik
Constructing Barriers in the Translation and Deployment of Science
The Standardization of Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Science Editorials and UK Biobanks
From ‘just the facts’ to ‘more theory and methods, please’
Why sociology does not need to be saved
Expanding The Literary Horizon
Three Sociological Epistemologies
Reason, Politics, and the Politics of Truth
Sociology in an Era of Fragmentation
What Do 'We' Know That 'They' Don't? Sociologists' versus Non-Sociologists' Knowledge
Visionary” Sociology
The disintegration of tribal solidarity among American sociologists
Stratification in knowledge production
Styles of Sociological Thought
Some comments on the inability of sociology of science to explain science
Public Meetings on Contamination
O construtivismo no estudo das relações internacionais
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |