Cultural Boundaries of Science: Credibility on the LineUniversity of Chicago Press, 1999 M01 15 - 398 páginas Why is science so credible? Usual answers center on scientists' objective methods or their powerful instruments. In his new book, Thomas Gieryn argues that a better explanation for the cultural authority of science lies downstream, when scientific claims leave laboratories and enter courtrooms, boardrooms, and living rooms. On such occasions, we use "maps" to decide who to believe—cultural maps demarcating "science" from pseudoscience, ideology, faith, or nonsense. Gieryn looks at episodes of boundary-work: Was phrenology good science? How about cold fusion? Is social science really scientific? Is organic farming? After centuries of disputes like these, Gieryn finds no stable criteria that absolutely distinguish science from non-science. Science remains a pliable cultural space, flexibly reshaped to claim credibility for some beliefs while denying it to others. In a timely epilogue, Gieryn finds this same controversy at the heart of the raging "science wars." |
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Contesting Credibility Cartographically | 1 |
Science Religion and Mechanics in Victorian England | 37 |
2 The US Congress Demarcates Natural Science and Social Science Twice | 65 |
Competition for the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh 1836 | 115 |
4 The Cold Fusion of Science Mass Media and Politics | 183 |
Albert and Gabrielle Howard Compost Organic Waste Science and the Rest of Society | 233 |
Home to Roost Science Wars as BoundaryWork | 336 |
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