Title Making sense of science : understanding the social study of science / Steven Yearly.

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London : SAGE, 2005.

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Description	1 online resource (xv, 205 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Just What Makes Science Special?; Chapter 2 -- Framing Commitments: The Strong Programme and the Empirical Programme of Relativism; Chapter 3 -- Knowledge and Social Interests; Chapter 4 -- Actor-Networks in Science; Chapter 5 -- Gender and Science Studies; Chapter 6 -- Ethnomethodology and the Analysis of Scientific Discourse; Chapter 7 -- Reflection, Explanation and Reflexivity in Science Studies; Chapter 8 -- Experts in Public: Publics' Relationships to Scientific Authority; Chapter 9 -- Figuring out Risks; Chapter 10 -- Science in Law.
Summary	Science is at the heart of contemporary society and is therefore central to the social sciences. Yet science studies has often encountered resistance from social scientists. This book attempts to remedy this by giving the most extensive, thorough and best argued account of the field and explaining to social scientists why science matters to them.
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Subject	Science -- Social aspects.
	Social sciences.
	Social aspects.
	Science.
	Science -- Social aspects -- Philosophy of Science.
	SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
	Science -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01108360
	Social sciences. (OCoLC)fst01122877
	Wetenschapssociologie.
Other Form:	Print version: Yearley, Steven. Making sense of science. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2005 0803986912 9780803986916 (DLC) 2004108292 (OCoLC)58454194
ISBN	9781412933896 (electronic bk.)
	1412933897 (electronic bk.)
	9781446222218 (electronic bk.)
	1446222217 (electronic bk.)

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