The Reflexive Thesis - Writing Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (Hardcover, 2nd)

This unusually innovative book treats reflexivity, not as a philosophical conundrum, but as a practical issue that arises in the course of scholarly research and argument. In order to demonstrate the concrete and consequential nature of reflexivity, Malcolm Ashmore concentrates on an area in which reflexive "problems" are acute: the sociology of scientific knowledge. At the forefront of recent radical changes in our understanding of science, this increasingly influential mode of analysis specializes in rigorous deconstructions of the research practices and textual products of the scientific enterprise. Through a series of detailed examinations of the practices and products of the sociology of scientific knowledge, Ashmore turns its own claims and findings back onto itself and opens up a whole new era of exploration beyond the common fear of reflexive self-destruction.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1989
First published:	August 1989
Authors:	Malcolm Ashmore
Foreword by:	Steve Woolgar
Dimensions:	238 x 165 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	320
Edition:	2nd
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-02968-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	0-226-02968-9
Barcode:	9780226029689

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