The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge

1977 ◽  
pp. 3-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Everett Mendelsohn
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Social

Statistics in Britain 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge.

Social Forces ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 1124
Author(s):  
Nicholas C. Mullins ◽  
Donald MacKenzie
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Constructing Worlds: Reflections on Science, Technology and Democracy (and a Plea for Bold Modesty)

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wiebe Bijker
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Construction Work ◽  
Social Construction Of Technology ◽  
Science Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Facts

Can STS offer a response to “alternative facts” without falling back into naive positivism? Can STS help to make science accountable to society and make it work—make it function in our democracies and let it produce scientific knowledge? In his valedictory lecture, Wiebe Bijker looks back upon three decades of STS research in general, and upon engaging STS with questions of democratization and development in particular. He starts from the question how to study technological cultures and ends with the question how to construct them. The argument moves from the social construction of technology to constructing socio-technical worlds. Finally, when trying to understand this construction work, the analysis zooms in on the constructing worlds: on the institutions in which this construction work takes place. 

Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930: The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge

1982 ◽  
Vol 87 (4) ◽  
pp. 1091
Author(s):  
M. J. Cullen ◽  
Donald A. Mackenzie
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Social

What's the Fuss about Social Constructivism?

Episteme ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
John Dupré
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Many ◽  
Social Construction Of Science

The topic of this paper is social constructivist doctrines about the nature of scientific knowledge. I don't propose to review all the many accounts that have either claimed this designation or had it ascribed to them. Rather I shall try to consider in a very general way what sense should be made of the underlying idea, and then illustrate some of the central points with two central examples from biology. The first thing to say is that, on the face of it, some doctrine of the social construction of science must self-evidently be true. The notion of science as progressing through the efforts of solitary geniuses may have had some plausibility in the seventeenth century, but it has none today. Science is a massively cooperative, social, enterprise. And surely it is constructed. Scientific knowledge doesn't grow on trees; it is produced through hard work by human agents. Putting these two banal points together we conclude that science is socially constructed.

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