Scientific Growth: Essays on the Social Organization and Ethos of Science: 6 (California Studies in the History of Science) - Hardcover

Ben-David, Joseph

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ISBN 10: 0520069250 ISBN 13: 9780520069251

Verlag: University of California Press, 1991

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A pioneer and major thinker in the sociology of science, Joseph Ben-David wrote with refreshing directness on questions central to the history and sociology of science. As they are combined here, Ben-David's essays reveal the richness and synthetic power of his intellect in a way his separate publications never did. Two themes form the heart of Ben-David's ground-breaking work: the emergence, existence, and growth of science as a distinctive activity within society, governed by a specific "scientific ethos"; and the social construction both of new objects of scientific study and of new scientific disciplines.Ben-David argues that only where the scientist's social role is institutionalized (i.e., recognized as legitimate by society at large), can science as a sustained and continuous activity exist and thrive. By the same token, new scientific objects and disciplines emerge where social circumstances encourage and sustain new ("hybridized") social roles.Ben-David's is a distinctly historical sociology of science, providing a theoretical framework capable of integrating both the historical and the synchronic approaches; it is also complementary to the perspective of the sociology of scientific knowledge.

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"Here, for the first time, we have the work of a key pioneer presented in all its depth and range. The pragmatic and prophetic voice of Joseph Ben-David speaks with a power and a clarity that will win the attention of a new generation of scholars."Arnold Thackray, University of Pennsylvania

"A superb collection of brilliant papers by a pioneering mind of international fame, who did much to shape the sociology of science. In organizing this major work, its knowing editor, Gad Freudenthal, has identified a remarkable sociological edifice that exhibits the theoretical coherence of Joseph Ben-David's many-sided and evolving contributions to the field."Robert K. Merton, Columbia University

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0520069250
• ISBN 13: 9780520069251
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 576
• Herausgeber: Freundenthal Gad