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Phrenological knowledge and the social structure of early nineteenth-century Edinburgh

Steven Shapin

Annals of Science 32 (3):219-243 (1975)

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Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory.Barry Barnes - 1974 - Routledge.details Originally published in 1974. Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory centres on the problem of explaining the manifest variety and contrast in the beliefs about nature held in different groups and societies. It maintains that the sociologist should treat all beliefs symmetrically and must investigate and account for allegedly "correct" or "scientific" beliefs just as he would "incorrect" or "unscientific" ones. From this basic position a study of scientific beliefs is constructed. The sociological interest of such beliefs is illustrated and a (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 88 citations
The sociology of science: theoretical and empirical investigations.Robert King Merton - 1973 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Norman W. Storer.details Download Export citation Bookmark 454 citations
Class, Codes and Control.Basil Bernstein - 1972 - British Journal of Educational Studies 20 (2):236-237.details Download Export citation Bookmark 76 citations
(2 other versions)Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth Century England.William R. Shea - 1938 - Science and Society 2 (4):566-571.details Download Export citation Bookmark 63 citations
The Edinburgh Phrenology Debate: 1803–1828.G. N. Cantor - 1975 - Annals of Science 32 (3):195-218.details In the late 1810s and 1820s the Edinburgh phrenologists were largely concerned with trying to establish phrenology as the true science of mind. They challenged the accepted theories about the nature of mind and the brain; in turn, phrenology was attacked by the proponents of Scottish common-sense philosophy and by some medical men. The ensuing debate, which is discussed as an example of conflict between incommensurable world-views, involved a wide range of contentious theological, philosophical, scientific and methodological issues. Download Export citation Bookmark 18 citations
(1 other version)The Democratic Intellect. Scotland and Her Universities in the Nineteenth Century.G. P. Henderson & George Elder Davie - 1963 - Philosophical Quarterly 13 (50):89.details Download Export citation Bookmark 14 citations
Property, Patronage, and the Politics of Science: The Founding of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.Steven Shapin - 1974 - British Journal for the History of Science 7 (1):1-41.details The institutionalization of natural knowledge in the form of a scientific society may be interpreted in several ways. If we wish to view science as something apart, unchanging in its intellectual nature, we may regard the scientific enterprise as presenting to the sustaining social system a number of absolute and necessary organizational demands: for example, scientific activity requires acceptance as an important social activity valued for its own sake, that is, it requires autonomy; it is separate from other forms of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 9 citations
The Audience for Science in Eighteenth Century Edinburgh.Steven Shapin - 1974 - History of Science 12 (2):95-121.details Download Export citation Bookmark 17 citations
Poulett Scrope on the Volcanoes of Auvergne: Lyellian Time and Political Economy.Martin J. S. Rudwigk - 1974 - British Journal for the History of Science 7 (3):205-242.details Early in 1826, at the age of 28, Charles Lyell began writing the first of a series of articles for J. G. Lockhart, the new editor of theQuarterly review. These articles gave him his first opportunity to express to the educated public his views on the state of science in general, and of geology in particular, in English society. According to the convention of theQuarterly, each article was nominally a review of one or more recently published works, but like other (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 7 citations

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