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The Social Study of Science before Kuhn

In Edward Hackett, Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch & Judy Wajcman, The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. MIT Press. pp. 33-62 (2007)

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  1. Public sociology and democratic theory.Stephen P. Turner - 2009 - In Jeroen Van Bouwel, The Social Sciences and Democracy. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan.
    Sociology, as conceived by Comte, was to put an end to the anarchy of opinions characteristic of liberal democracy by replacing opinion with the truths of sociology, imposed through indoctrination. Later sociologists backed away from this, making sociology acceptable to liberal democracy by being politically neutral. The critics of this solution asked 'whose side are we on?' Burawoy provides a novel justification for advocacy scholarship in sociology. Public sociology is intended to have political effects, but also to be funded by (...)
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  • Political Epistemology, Experts, and the Aggregation of Knowledge.Stephen Turner - 2007 - Spontaneous Generations 1 (1):36.
    Expert claims routinely “affect, combat, refute, and negate” someone or some faction or grouping of persons. When scientists proclaim the truth of Darwinism, they refute, negate, and whatnot the Christian view of the creation, and thus Christians. When research is done on racial differences, it affects, negates, and so on, those who are negatively characterized. This is why Phillip Kitcher argues that it should be banned. Some truths are too dangerous to ever inquire into, because, he reasons, even by inquiring (...)
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