SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE

Abstract

Alvin W. Gouldner argued that the opposing thought-styles of classicism and romanticism formed the deep structure of sociology theory. This chapter applies this idea, arguing that the sociology of science, and the interdisciplinary science and technology studies that have developed from it, is an intellectual project in which the opposing deep orientations, or ideological structures, of classicism and romanticism are centrally at stake. The chapter follows Gouldner in arguing for the intellectual value of romanticism and its essential role in sociological thought.