{"product_id":"scientific-practice-and-ordinary-action-ethnomethodology-and-social-studies-of-science-paperback-9780521597425","title":"Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action; Ethnomethodology and Social Studies of Science (Paperback) 9780521597425","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eScientific Practice and Ordinary Action\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEthnomethodology and Social Studies of Science\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis controversial book disputes the idea that science is the application of a unified method or the outgrowth of a progressive history of ideas.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Lynch (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521597425, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 13 August 1997\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e356 pages, 5 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15 x 2.1 cm, 0.533 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePhilosophers, historians, and sociologists of science have grown interested in the daily practices of scientists. Recent studies have drawn linkages between scientific innovations and more ordinary procedures, craft skills, and sources of sponsorship. These studies dispute the idea that science is the application of a unified method or the outgrowth of a progressive history of ideas. This book critically reviews arguments and empirical studies in two areas of sociology that have played a significant role in the 'sociological turn' in science studies: ethnomethodology (the study of ordinary practical reasoning) and the sociology of scientific knowledge. In both fields, efforts to study scientific practices have led to intractable difficulties and debates, due in part to scientistic and foundationalist commitments that remain entrenched with social-scientific research policies and descriptive language. The central purpose of this book is to explore the possibility of an empirical approach to the epistemic contents of science that avoids the pitfalls of scientism and foundationalism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Ethnomethodology\u003cbr\u003e 2. The demise of the 'old' sociology of science\u003cbr\u003e 3. The rise of the new sociology of scientific knowledge\u003cbr\u003e 4. Phenomenology and protoethnomethodology\u003cbr\u003e 5. Wittgenstein, rules, and epistemology's topic\u003cbr\u003e 6. Molecular sociology\u003cbr\u003e 7. From quiddity to haecceity: ethnomethodological studies of work\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy of science [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy of science\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20of%20science%20%5BPDA%5D%22\"\u003ePDA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004380434712,"sku":"9780521597425","price":38.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521597425i_ee36fdfe-2fd4-4ec4-823e-a348bfb34f97.jpg?v=1691370221","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/scientific-practice-and-ordinary-action-ethnomethodology-and-social-studies-of-science-paperback-9780521597425","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}