Sociology as Scientific Knowledge

HERE AND EVERYWHERE: Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

Internet Research and the Sociology of Cyber-Social-Scientific Knowledge

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Scientific Measurements in Sociology

Sociology is considered by many to be a somewhat lr,exact science; this may be because no clearly defined J^its of measurement in human relationships have "een established. Perhaps the most important of these relationships 's that between men and women, so it is proposed Pr'ef|y to suggest some clearly definable units in this ''eld. ^ has been previously suggested that the unit of ernale beauty...

Scientific Communication and Cognitive Codification Social Systems Theory and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

The intellectual organization of the sciences cannot be appreciated sufficiently unless the cognitive dimension is considered as an independent source of variance. Cognitive structures interact and co-construct the organization of scholars and discourses into research programs, specialties, and disciplines. In the sociology of scientific knowledge and the sociology of translation, these heterog...

Methodology Choices and the Construction of Facts: Some Implications from the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

This paper has two objectives: first, to provide a brief review of developments in the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK); second to apply an aspect of SSK theorising which is concerned with the construction of scientific knowledge. The paper offers a review of the streams of thought which can be identified within SSK and then proceeds to illustrate the theoretic constructs introduced in t...