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  | | Virtual Society? Get Real!(1st Edition) Technology, Cyberbole, Reality by Steve Woolgar Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2003 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924876-6, ISBN: 0-19-924876-1 "Almost all aspects of social, cultural, economic and political life stand to be affected by the new electronic technologies. Virtual Society? is one vision of the consequential impact of these technologies. But to what extent and in what ways are the Internet and other electronic technologies really changing our lives? To what extent are we moving to a 'virtual society'? This collection provides a comprehensive set of detailed empirica ..." |
 | | The Machine at Work(1st Edition) Technology, Work and Organization by Keith Grint, Steve Woolgar Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 1997 by Polity Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-0925-6, ISBN: 0-7456-0925-2 "This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work. Firstly, it reviews and critically assesses a variety of recent approaches to the social and cultural dimensions of technology. Secondly, it examines the implications of these new approaches for existing ideas about the nature of technology and work organization. At the core of much thinking about technology is the assumption ..." |
 | | Globalization in Practice(1st Edition) by William H. Rupp, Nigel Thrift, Adam Tickell, Steve Woolgar Paperback, 318 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-921263-7, ISBN: 0-19-921263-5 "The concept of globalization has become ubiquitous in social science and in the public consciousness and is often invoked as an explanation for a diverse range of changes to economies, societies, politics and cultures - both as a positive liberating force and as a wholly negative one. While our understanding of the politics, economics, and social resonance of the phenomenon has become increasingly sophisticated at the macro-level, this ..." |
 | | Laboratory Life(Reprint) The Construction of Scientific Facts, 2nd Edition by Director Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar, Jonas Salk, Seve Woolgar Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 1986 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-02832-3, ISBN: 0-691-02832-X " This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based ..." |
 | | Representation in Scientific Practice(1st Edition) (MIT Press) by Michael E. Lynch, Steve Woolgar Paperback, 376 Pages, Published 1990 by The Mit Press ISBN-13: 978-0-262-62076-5, ISBN: 0-262-62076-6 "The essays in this book provide an excellent introduction to the means by which scientists convey their ideas. While diverse in their subject matter, the essays are unified in asserting that scientists compose and use particular representations in contextually organized and contextually sensitive ways, and that these representations - particularly visual displays such as gr ..." |
 | | Mundane Governance(1st Edition) Ontology and Accountability by Steve Woolgar, Dr Daniel Neyland Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-958474-1, ISBN: 0-19-958474-5 "What is to be made of the outcry when newly issued recycling "wheelie" bins are discovered to contain microchips for weighing and evaluating householders' rubbish? The angry accusations that speed cameras are generating excessive income for the government? The consternation at the measures taken by airports to heighten security in the wake of the increased threat of terrorist attacks? These increasingly widespread reactions to ordinary ..." |
 | | Virtual Society Technology, Cyberbole, Reality by Steve Woolgar Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2002 by Oxford University Press, Usa ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924875-9, ISBN: 0-19-924875-3 "My special thanks go to Geoff Robinson for his wise and sympathetic counsel and to the other members of a lively Advisory Committee: John Leighfield, SoniaLivingstone, Geoff McMullen, Elizabeth Mills, and Paul Williams. I was fortunate to work with three outstanding Programme Administrators: my thanks for their excellent support to Donna Page, Caroline Ingram and, especially for her tireless assistance in compiling this volume, to ..." |
 | | Science The Very Idea (Key ideas) by Steve Woolgar Hardcover, 119 Pages, Published 1988 by Tavistock Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7458-0041-7, ISBN: 0-7458-0041-6 "Steve Woolgar. Editor's. foreword. Sociological studies of knowledge and science have always laboured under the burden of a widespread assumption that science represents pure and 'objective' knowledge — ideally untainted by 'social' ..." |
 | | Laboratory Life(1st Edition) The Social Construction of Scientific Facts (SAGE Library of Social Research) by Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar Paperback, 271 Pages, Published 1979 by Sage Publications, Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-8039-0994-6, ISBN: 0-8039-0994-2 "London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Smith, R. Jeffrey 1979 "NCI bioassays yield a trail of blunders." Science 204 (June 22): 1287-1292. Spiegel-Roesing, Ina 1977 "The study of science, technology, and society (SSTS): Recent trends and future challenges." Pp. 7-42 in I. Spiegel-Roesing and D. de S. Price (eds.), Science, Technology, and Society: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. Spiegel-Roesing, Ina and D. de ..." |
 | | Science, the Very Idea (Key Ideas) by Steve Woolgar Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1988 by Ellis Horwood, Ltd. ISBN-13: 978-0-7458-0042-4, ISBN: 0-7458-0042-4 "Book by Woolgar, Steve" |
 | | The Reflexive Thesis(1st Edition) Wrighting Sociology of Scientific Knowledge by Malcolm Ashmore, Steve Woolgar Hardcover, 287 Pages, Published 1989 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-02968-9, ISBN: 0-226-02968-9 "This unusually innovative book treats reflexivity, not as a philosophical conundrum, but as a practical issue that arises in the course of scholarly research and argument. In order to demonstrate the concrete and consequential nature of reflexivity, Malcolm Ashmore concentrates on an area in which reflexive "problems" are acute: the sociology of scientific knowledge. At the forefront of recent radical changes in our understanding of sci ..." |
 | | Science(Updated) The Very Idea (Key Ideas) by Steve Woolgar Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1988 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-08475-8, ISBN: 0-415-08475-X "The notion of science is a dominant and enduring feature of Western thought. This text examines the social study of science, which has begun to transform attitudes to science traditionally upheld by historians and philosophers." |
 | | Knowledge and Reflexivity(Updated) New Frontiers in the Sociology of Knowledge by Professor Steve Woolgar Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1991 by Sage Publications Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-8039-8121-8, ISBN: 0-8039-8121-X |
 | | The Imposter As Social Theory Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans by Steve Woolgar Hardcover, Published 2021 by Bristol University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5292-1307-2, ISBN: 1-5292-1307-X |
 | | The Machine at Work(1st Edition) Technology, Work and Organization by Keith Grint, Steve Woolgar Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1997 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-0924-9, ISBN: 0-7456-0924-4 "This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work. Firstly, it reviews and critically assesses a variety of recent approaches to the social and cultural dimensions of technology. Secondly, it examines the implications of these new approaches for existing ideas about the nature of technology and work organization. At the core of much thinking about technology is the assumption t ..." |
 | | Laboratory Life The Construction of Scientific Facts (Princeton Paperbacks) by Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar, Jonas Salk, Dr Jonas Salk Hardcover, 294 Pages, Published 1986 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-09418-2, ISBN: 0-691-09418-7 " This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts,"' and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the time being, too expensive to change. The book is based ..." |
 | | SAGE Library of Social Research Ser.(1st Edition) Laboratory Life : The Construction of Scientific Facts 80 by Bruno Latour, Steve Woolgar Hardcover, 271 Pages, Published 1979 by Sage Publications, Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-8039-0993-9, ISBN: 0-8039-0993-4 "Under the liberal direction of Robert McGinnis, a generous contract ... and the sage counsel of Robert Morison, we undertook to evaluate (quite ..." |
 | | The Cognitive Turn Sociological and Psychological Perspectives on Science (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook) by Steve Fuller, Marc De Mey, Steve Woolgar, T. Shinn, Terry Shinn, Professor Steve Fuller Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 1989 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-0306-0, ISBN: 0-7923-0306-7 "If nothing else, the twelve papers assembled in this volume should lay to rest the idea that the interesting debates about the nature of science are still being conducted by "internalists" vs. "externalists,"" rationalists" vs. "arationalists, n or even "normative epistemologists" vs. "empirical sociologists of knowledge. " Although these distinctions continue to haunt much of the theoretical discussion in philosophy and sociology of sc ..." |
 | | Knowledge and Reflexivity New Frontiers in the Sociology of Knowledge by Professor Steve Woolgar Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1988 by Sage Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-8039-8120-1, ISBN: 0-8039-8120-1 "Scholars working in the area broadly described as `social studies of science' have convincingly demonstrated over the past decade that natural scientific knowledge is a product of social, cultural, historical and political processes. The eight contributors to this volume - newly available in paper - argue that it is high time that social science itself is seen as actively generated by those same forces.The tool that they use to analyze ..." |
 | | Visualization in the Age of Computerization by Annamaria Carusi, Aud Sissel Hoel, Timothy Webmoor, Steve Woolgar 282 Pages, Published 2014 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-135-07736-5, ISBN: 1-135-07736-3 "Albena. Yaneva. As an anthropologist trained byBruno Latour, my research has taken me to fieldwork sitesasexciting asthe Musée d'art modern de la ville de Paris and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam in 2001, among others. At the time of these studies, ActorNetworkTheory (ANT) 1 was taken beyond its privileged domains of action (science, technology and engineering as praxis) and was now being used as a method to i ..." |
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