ethnography

science studies

turn to technology

nationality

British

occupation / innovator as

sociologist

university teacher

innovator in the field of

Science and Technology Studies (STS)

actor-network theory

is concerned with finding things to be other than you supposed they were.

the ethnographer is concerned with finding things to be other than you supposed they were. In the case of science, this translates into a concern to demystify, to argue that science is 'in fact' quite an ordinary enterprise, not to be feared, and essentially similar to the work of non-science in most of its particulars' (Woolgar 'laboratory studies of science' in social studies of sience' 1982 :485)

is a study that shows how scientific work can be shown to be similar to non-scientific work.

the conclusion, which is surely by now unremarkable, is that scientific work can be shown to be similar to non-science' (Woolgar 1982:485).

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