Routledge Revivals: Art and Artifact in Laboratory Science (1985): A Study of Shop Work and Shop Talk in a Research Laboratory

by Michael Lynch

First published in 1985, this book provides a descriptive study of social activities in a neurosciences laboratory. Based on fieldwork conducted by the author in the laboratory during 1975 and 1976, and taking an ethnomethodological approach, it focuses on the phenomenon of the social accomplishment of natural scientific order. Through the examination of shop work and shop talk in this environment, it identifies an analyzable social basis in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138085537
• ISBN13: 9781138085534
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.4"