Social Knowledge in the Making
by Lamont, Michèle, Camic, Charles, Jasanoff, Sheila, Gross, Neil
Knowledge production in the disciplines -- Library research infrastructure for humanistic and social scientific scholarship in the twentieth century / Andrew Abbott -- In Clio's American atelier / Anthony T. Grafton -- Filing the total human: anthropological archives from 1928 t…
"The essays collected here tackle a range of previously unexplored questions about the practices involved in the production, assessment, and use of diverse forms of social knowledge"--Provided by publisher.
Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to Social Knowledge in the Making turn their attention t…