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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Latour, Bruno (1947-2022)
Titre(s) : Science in action [Texte imprimé] : how to follow scientists and engineers through society / Bruno Latour
Publication : Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard University press, copyright 1987
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (274 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-270) and index
"Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their
working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western
societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers, sociologists
and historians of science. In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different
approaches to provide a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating
how social context and technical content are both essential to a proper understanding
of scientific activity. Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its
practice, the author examines science and technology in action: the role of scientific
literature, the activities of laboratories, the institutional context of science in
the modern world, and the means by which inventions and discoveries become accepted.
From the study of scientific practice he develops an analysis of science as the building
of networks. Throughout, Bruno Latour shows how a lively and realistic picture of
science in action alters our conception of not only the natural sciences but also
the social sciences and the sociology of knowledge in general. This stimulating book,
drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide range of scientific activities, will interest
all philosophers, sociologists and historians of science, scientists and engineers,
and students of the philosophy of social science and the sociology of knowledge".
Harvard University Press
Sujet(s) : Sciences -- Société
Technologie -- Société
Sciences -- Histoire
Philosophie des sciences
Écologie humaine
Indice(s) Dewey :
306.45 (23e éd.) = Sciences (sociologie)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780674792913
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47285659z
Notice n° :
FRBNF47285659
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction: Opening Pandora's black box ; pt. I: From weaker to stronger rhetoric.
Literature ; Laboratories ; pt. II: From weak points to strongholds. Machines ; Insiders
out ; pt. III: From short to longer networks. Tribunals of reason ; Centres of calculation
; Appendix 1: Rules of method ; Appendix 2: Principles
