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Common terms and phrasesactions actor-network theory actors applied argued arguments artifacts assumptions boundaries Bruno Latour Cambridge challenge Chapter citizen science claims cold fusion Collins communication constructivism contexts controversy create cultures difference feminism dominant economic example experimental experiments expertise fact feminist field formal gender Gieryn goals Human Values idea important interests interpretations issues Knorr Cetina Kuhn laboratory Latour material mathematical Merton metaphor Mulkay nature neo-Kantian networks norms objects observations organized paradigm participants particular perspective philosophers political popular positions practices problem of induction problems production questions representations result rhetorical science and technology science’s Scientific scientific and technical scientific knowledge scientists and engineers seen shaped social construction Social Studies social world Society sociology standard strong programme structures STS’s Studies of Science success tacit knowledge technological determinism Technology & Human technoscience theoretical Trevor Pinch truth understand University Press Whig history women Woolgar Bibliographic information |