The Social Process of Scientific Investigation.

Abstract

Contents: KNORR: The scientist as an analogical reasoner: A critique of the metaphor theory of innovation. B. LATOUR: Is it possible to reconstruct the research process? Sociology of a brain peptide. T. J. PINCH: Theoreticians and the production of experimental anomaly: The case of solar neutrinos. ANDREW PICKERING: The role of interests in high-energy physics: The choice between charm and colour. BILL HARVEY: The effects of social context on the process of scientific investigation: Experimental tests of quantum mechanics. DAVID TRAVIS: On the construction of creativity: The "memory transfer" phenomenon and the importance of being earnest. MICHEL CALLON: Struggles and negotiations to define what is problematic and what is not: The sociologic translation. JAN BARMARK, GORAN WALLEN: The development of an interdisciplinary project. STEVE WOOLGAR: Discovery: Logic and sequence in a scientific text. NIGEL GILBERT, MICHAEL MULKAY: Contexts of scientific discourse: Social accounting in experimental physics. RICHARD WHITLEY: The context of scientific investigation.