Science in action (Record no. 49744)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780674792913
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name Brijwasi Book Distributors
Distributor address H-87,Lalita Nagar, Delhi.
Bill Number BW/004840
Bill Date 25/06/2018
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 306.45 LAT
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bruno Latour.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Science in action
Remainder of title : how to follow scientists and engineers through society.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Bruno Latour.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Cambridge, Mass.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Harvard University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 1987.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 274 pages
Other physical details : illustrations
Dimensions ; 24 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 2322
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Contents note Introduction: Opening Pandora's black box --<br/>pt. I: From weaker to stronger rhetoric. Literature ; Laboratories --<br/>pt. II: From weak points to strongholds. Machines ; Insiders out --<br/>pt. III: From short to longer networks. Tribunals of reason ; Centres of calculation --<br/>Appendix 1: Rules of method --<br/>Appendix 2: Principles.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Science and technology have immense authority and influence in our society, yet their working remains little understood. The conventional perception of science in Western societies has been modified in recent years by the work of philosophers, sociologists and historians of science. In this book Bruno Latour brings together these different approaches to provide a lively and challenging analysis of science, demonstrating how social context and technical content are both essential to a proper understanding of scientific activity. Emphasizing that science can only be understood through its practice, the author examines science and technology in action: the role of scientific literature, the activities of laboratories, the institutional context of science in the modern world, and the means by which inventions and discoveries become accepted. From the study of scientific practice he develops an analysis of science as the building of networks. Throughout, Bruno Latour shows how a lively and realistic picture of science in action alters our conception of not only the natural sciences but also the social sciences and the sociology of knowledge in general. This stimulating book, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide range of scientific activities, will interest all philosophers, sociologists and historians of science, scientists and engineers, and students of the philosophy of social science and the sociology of knowledge". Harvard University Press.
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Genre/form data or focus term Philosophie.
Non-focus term Social Environment.
-- Science.
-- History
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Bruno Latour.
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