Instituting Science: The Cultural Production of Scientific_disciplines

by Timothy Lenoir

Early practitioners of the social studies of science turned their attention away from questions of institutionalization, which had tended to emphasize macrolevel explanations, and attended instead to microstudies of laboratory practice. Though sympathetic to this approach--as the microstudies included in this book attest--the author is interested in re-investigating certain aspects of institution formation, notably the formation of scientific,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804729255
• ISBN13: 9780804729253
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"