strong program

is the idea that scientific ideas are cultural and linguistic conventions -sense making.

that scientific ideas are cultural and linguistic conventions as much as they are simply the results of other, more 'objective' actions and procedures. Rather than only 'findings' that hold up a mirror to nature (Rorty, 1979), science is understood as a collective representation, a language game that reflects a prior pattern of sense-making activity. . . .In the context of the sociology of science, the concept of the strong program, in other words, suggests a radical uncoupling of cognitive content from natural determination' (Alexander M 13)

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strong program