Talk:Sociology of scientific knowledge

message: Please note: There is a sociology of knowledge page AND a sociology of scientific knowledge page: please attempt to keep these pages distinct. If that's not possible, maybe both should be merged, and 'science' included as a subcategory? --Tomsega (talk) 16:11, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: I did make a few changes regarding whether the ANT theorists are to be included in the SSK-field. My view is that it should be kept separate since these theorists have diametrically different conceptions of ontology, and have also debated this widely.
Instead I made a separate entry called "Criticism".
What about it?
Christopher Kullenberg 20:46, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree - good correction. May I invite you to visit STS Wiki? This is a new site, very much in need of content development; it isn't intended to compete with, but rather to supplement, Wikipedia (guides to STS scholars, STS programs, etc.) Bryan 12:50, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  ANT theorists 

message: In general STS use, if I am not mistaken, SSK is synonymous with the strong programme, or actually, these are part of the description of one approach, "Strong Programme in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge," that first emerged as the Edinburgh school. 
SSK is not used generally to describe the field of sociology of science or STS. SSK is a subfield. Popper doesn't belong in this group.  This article needs a rewrite, perhaps moving some material to the STS or other general science study page. Rubble 19:47, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  SSK is Strong Programme: article needs reworking 

message: Many scientists have criticized sociology of scientific knowledge, as well as much of sociology itself, for having allegedly contributed in undermining scientific knowledge in the United States. Many of these issues are mentioned in the article Sokal affair. The reason for this is that sociologists in general don't especially like using the methodology of philosophical realism, where the world is presented as it is or as it should be, such as what Descartes and Newton are mostly interested in. On the contrary, they tend to favour the teachings of Schopenahauer and Kant, who are more open to the idea that knowledge is constructed in a sociological sense.  ADM (talk) 21:28, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Generalisation, but perhaps largely true. One must always remember Sokal affair was targeted at some of the worst postmodernist sociologists/philsophers, and not sociologists in general. --Tomsega (talk) 17:32, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Sociology of scientific knowledge as anti-scientific

message: The criticism section currently possesses no references. I therefore recommend some of these paragraphs for deletion. --Tomsega (talk) 17:32, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism section

message: Thanks to SA for reverting my dopey edit. I didn't realise sociology of science redirects here. Surely that is the generic article, and "sociology of scientific knowledge" can belong in it. That way we can present a range of different schools of thought alongside each other, from different countries too. Itsmejudith (talk) 21:16, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sociology of science 

message: Surely inclusion of this "section" entitled "Other relevant materials" should be reconsidered ; the Becker book is an embarrassment except to his adepts and at best belongs in the reading section.  One "resource" is here twice. Pick one and add another or just remove the section.  If the Further Reading section is to include video resources, please rename that section as per wp guidelines.
This article itself need not reflect the state of SSK in this one respect: incoherence.
G. Robert Shiplett 20:17, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other relevant materials 

message: The article lists this link that I've been trying to run down: 
::<http://www.at1ce.org/themenreihe.p?c=Sociology of scientific knowledge>
I've tried variations: (<http://www.at1ce.org/themenreihe.p?c=Sociology_of_scientific_knowledge> and <http://www.at1ce.org/themenreihe.p?c=Sociology%20of%20scientific%20knowledge>) but am coming up empty.  I've tagged the link as dead.  RedJ 17 (talk) 15:39, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the reference as I couldn't find it either... --Cic (talk) 10:09, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

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message: Is there no article on the sociology of science? 
This article isn't it -- it doesn't mention Weber, mentions Merton only in so far as the "sociology of knowledge" rejects Merton's "sociology of science". It doesn't even seem to actually be about sociology -- that is, the study of groups of people. 
It seems to be about a late 20th century movement in the sociology of science, centered in England. Has no one tried to write an actual "sociology of science" article? 
Judging by the talk page, this article seems to have been abandoned ten years ago or so. If anyone is still watching this, just drop a note. ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 06:50, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is sociology of science?