Sociology of scientific knowledge Sociology of scientific knowledge Alan David Sokal (born 1955) is a physicist at New York University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Sokal"
Barry Barnes is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter. Barnes worked at the 'Science Studies Unit' at the University of Edinburgh with David Bloor in the 1980s and early 1990s, where they developed the strong programme in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barry Barnes"
The Bogdanov Affair is a controversy regarding the merit of a series of theoretical physics papers written by French twin brothers Igor and Grichka Bogdanov (or Bogdanoff). These papers were published in reputable scientific journals, and culminate in a proposed theory for describing what occurred before the Big Bang. The controversy started in 2002 when accusations were made on Usenet newsgroups that the work was a deliberate hoax targeting the physics community. While the Bogdanovs defend the veracity of their work, some physicists have alleged that the papers are nonsense, and have raised questions about the strength of the peer-review system that selected the research for publication. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bogdanov Affair"
Bruno Latour (born June 1947, Beaune, France) is a French sociologist of science best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, describing the process of scientific research from the perspective of social construction based on field observations of working scientists. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bruno Latour"
Consensus science is a phrase used to describe a position on an issue that is primarily supported using existing or purported scientific consensus as an appeal to authority or appeal to the majority. It can also refer to a use of scientific consensus in a logical argument as the primary means to demonstrate, establish, or promote a view based on scientific or statistical data which may or may not be part of some hypothesis or theory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Consensus science"
David Bloor is the director of the 'Science Studies Unit' at the University of Edinburgh (see Edinburgh School). ...more on Wikipedia about "David Bloor"
Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science (ISBN 0312204078) ( French: Impostures Intellectuelles, published in the UK as Intellectual Impostures, ISBN 1861976313) is a book by professors Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont. Sokal is best-known for the Sokal Affair, in which he submitted an article to the journal Social Text, a moderately important critical theory journal; although actually an ironic parody of a typical article, it was accepted and published as legitimate! The book was published in 1997 in France and 1998 in the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fashionable Nonsense"
Jean Bricmont is a Belgian theoretical physicist and a professor at the Catholic University of Louvain. He works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jean Bricmont"
Social construction of technology (also referred to as SCOT) is a branch of the Science and Technology Studies. Its subtopics include Social Shaping of Technology, actor-network theory and sociotechnical System Theory (developed by Thomas P. Hughes) among others), the last of which is a branch of the sociology of science and technology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Social construction of technology"
Social Text is a postmodern cultural studies journal published by Duke University Press. ...more on Wikipedia about "Social Text"
The sociology of knowledge is the study of the social origins of ideas, and of the effects prevailing ideas have on societies. (Compare history of ideas.) ...more on Wikipedia about "Sociology of knowledge"
The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK), closely related to the sociology of science, considers social influences on science. Practitioners include Gaston Bachelard, David Bloor, Paul Feyerabend, Elihu M. Gerson, Thomas Kuhn, Karl Popper, Susan Leigh Star, Anslem Strauss, Lucy Suchman, Harry Collins and others. ...more on Wikipedia about "Sociology of scientific knowledge"
The Sokal Affair was a famous hoax played by physicist Alan Sokal upon the editorial staff and readership of a leading journal in the academic humanities. In 1996, Sokal, a professor of physics at New York University, submitted a pseudoscientific paper for publication in a postmodern cultural studies journal, as an experiment to see if a humanities journal would, in Sokal's words: "publish an article liberally salted with nonsense if (a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions." ...more on Wikipedia about "Sokal Affair"
The strong programme is a variety of the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) particularly associated with David Bloor, Barry Barnes, Harry Collins, Donald MacKenzie, and John Henry. The strong programme's influence on Science and Technology Studies is credited as being unparalleled ( Latour 1999). The largely Edinburgh based school of thought has illustrated how the existence of a scientific community, bound together by allegiance to a shared paradigm, is a pre-requisite for normal scientific activity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Strong programme"
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Technological determinism is a reductionist doctrine that a society's technology determines its cultural values, social structure, or history, as illustrated in the following quotation from Karl Marx (Poverty of Philosophy, 1847): "the windmill gives you society with the feudal lord: the steam-mill, society with the industrial capitalist." The term is believed to have been coined by Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929), an American sociologist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Technological determinism"
Wanda Orlikowski is a Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and a scholar within the Information Systems field. She looks at ways to study the implementation and use of technologies within organisations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wanda Orlikowski"
Wiebe E. Bijker was born on 19 March 1951 in Delft, The Netherlands. After finishing Gymnasium β in Emmeloord (1969), he got his Philosophy Bachelors in 1974 from the Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) and his Drs. (old style Dutch Master) in Physical Engineering in 1976 from the Universteit Twente (UT), at this same university he also got his Phd in 1990. ...more on Wikipedia about "Wiebe Bijker"
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