Unhastening Science: Autonomy and Reflexivity in the Social Theory of Knowledge

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Liverpool University Press, Jan 1, 2003 - Social Science - 274 pages
This book offers a new account of what makes science special among other human pursuits, engaging critically with a variety of approaches, especially constructivist and relativist studies of science and technology. It focuses on the studied lack of haste of science, its relative freedom from stress and its socially sanctioned withdrawal from the swift pace of ordinary life, ie the slower means of observation, experiment, comparison, inscription, unhastened conversation, protracted conflict and low-gear competition.
 

Contents

What Again is So Special about Science?
25
Two Traditions in the Social Theory of Knowledge
51
The Natural Proximity of Facts and Values
74
Bourdieu on Science
108
The Politics of Symmetry
130
One Step Up
157
Intellectual Autonomy and the Politics of Slow Motion
179
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