Making Science: Between Nature and Society

by Stephen Cole

Book Overview

The sociology of science is dominated today by relativists who boldly argue that the content of science is not influenced by evidence from the empirical world but is instead socially constructed in the laboratory. Making Science is the first serious critique by a sociologist of the social constructivist position.

Stephen Cole begins by making a distinction between two kinds of knowledge: the core, which consists of those contributions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674543475
• ISBN13: 9780674543478
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"