Book Details
Format
Hardcover
Pages
244
Language
English
Published
Jul 15, 1996
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226037304
ISBN-13
9780226037301
Description
A systematic account of the importance of sociology for the understanding of scientific knowledge. Applying sociological analysis to specific historical case studies, the work attempts to show how the sociological approach is an essential complement to interpretations of scientific knowledge from other disciplines, and a necessary contribution to obtaining a scientific understanding of science. This book should be of interest to students in the social sciences and the history and philosophy of science, and to academics interested in knowledge, epistemology, the history of ideas and the "new" sociology of science.
Genres
Science & Technology
History
Philosophy