This book proposes a fresh approach to sociological analysis and,
in particular, to the analysis of scientific culture. It moves away
from previous studies, which have tended to focus on scientists'
actions and beliefs to show that analysis of scientific discourse
can be productive and revealing. The book demonstrates that
scientists produce varying accounts of their actions and beliefs in
different social situations. Rather than attempting to extract one
coherent interpretation from these diverse accounts, the study
identifies two basic scientific repertoires and shows how
scientists use them to create their discourse. This provides a
point of departure for more complex analytical topics. Discourse
analysis is applied to show how different degrees of 'consensus'
can be ascribed to the same group of scientists at a given moment
in time through the application of standard interpretive
techniques. Finally, discourse analysis is used to explore
scientists' humour, a neglected topic that is shown to provide
important insights into the normally hidden interpretive
regularities which underlie the cultural diversity of science.
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