Map** the Dynamics of Science and Technology
Sociology of Science in the Real World
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ANT and Politics: Working in and on the World
While it is possible to define ANT in a series of abstract bullet points to do so is to miss most of the point. Instead it explores and theorises the world through rich case studies. This means that, like symb...
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Biogea: Love, hate and the murmurings of the world
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Animal Practices
Animals are effects. They may be understood as the performative consequences of sets of somewhat choreographed but largely unknowable practices. This implies that however much they may be engineered up, animal...
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The Actor-Enacted: Cumbrian Sheep in 2001
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Assessment of EST- and genomic microsatellite markers for variety discrimination and genetic diversity studies in wheat
It is likely that in the near future sequence information from sequencing programmes and EST libraries will generate an abundance of genic microsatellite markers. This study is focused on the assessment of the...
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Notes on the theory of the actor-network: Ordering, strategy, and heterogeneity
This paper describes the theory of the actor-network, a body of theoretical and empirical writing which treats social relations, including power and organization, as network effects. The theory is distinctive ...
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The cloning of the rorB gene of Escherichia coli
A segment of the Escherichia coli genome which complements the ionising radiation sensitivity of the rorB mutation was cloned into pBR322. This DNA segment also complements the mitomycin C sensitivity of the rorB
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Lists, field guides, and the descriptive organization of seeing: Birdwatching as an exemplary observational activity
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Putting Texts in Their Place
In this book we have mounted an argument about science and technology and offered a method for its study. The implications of the argument, which were developed in detail in early chapters, are reviewed for sc...
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How to Study the Force of Science
Let us start with a statement of the obvious: science and technology are powerful forces in modern industrialised society and are accordingly of vital direct and indirect importance to many. Of course they are...
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Laboratories and Texts
What is so special about a laboratory? Why is it the laboratory rather than the boardroom that counts as Touraine’s strategic locus for the twentieth century? Why is the laboratory the most important centre of...
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The Heterogeneity of Texts
The text is the secret weapon of science. It is sent out from the laboratory and, if it does not strike terror into the hearts of those who read it, at least they are often obliged to take it seriously. By vir...
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Qualitative Scientometrics
Scientific and technical research is in a state of continuous flux. Sectors once considered to be strategic become obsolete, while new and promising fields appear. There are bottlenecks, points of obligatory p...
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Planning a First Phase Module for a Fully Integrated Computer Nursing System
It has long been recognised that effective management requires timely access to relevant management information. As has been the case with many other organisations in recent years, Senior Nurses of the Glouces...
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The Acquisition of Social Coherence Conditions: Manipulation
In Chapter 7 we suggested that the structure and stability of a network is a function of its workability. One that is subject to change is, correspondingly, one that has proven unsatisfactory in practice. Ther...
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Interests and Knowledge
The careful reader will have noted our use of the term ‘interest’ at a number of places in earlier chapters and will rightly have concluded that this concept plays an important role in the network theory of kn...
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Classification
We start with an assertion: human beings have the capacity to classify phenomena into groups. In principle every moment is novel, every situation is something that we have never encountered before, each object...
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Negotiation, Persuasion and the Power of Knowledge
In Chapter 12 we argued that the extent to which actors are able to agree about the facts of the matter — that is, the extent to which they are able to align their networks — depends on the extent to which the...
