The Reflexive Thesis: Wrighting Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

by Malcolm Ashmore

This unusually innovative book treats reflexivity, not as a philosophical conundrum, but as a practical issue that arises in the course of scholarly research and argument. In order to demonstrate the concrete and consequential nature of reflexivity, Malcolm Ashmore concentrates on an area in which reflexive "problems" are acute: the sociology of scientific knowledge. At the forefront of recent radical changes in our understanding of science, this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226029689
• ISBN13: 9780226029689
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"