Social knowledge in the making
By: edited by Charles Camic, Neil Gross, and Michèle Lamont
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 471
ISBN-13: 9780226092089; 9780226092096
Subjects: Sociology of Knowledge; Social sciences; Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Knowledge production in the disciplines; title: Library research infrastructure for humanistic and social scientific scholarship in the twentieth century / Andrew Abbott; title: In Clio's American atelier / Anthony T. Grafton; title: Filing the total human: anthropological archives from 1928 to 1963 / Rebecca Lemov; title: Academic conferences and the making of philosophical knowledge / Neil Gross and Crystal Fleming; title: Practical foundations of theorizing in sociology: the case of Pierre Bourdieu / Johan Heilbron; title: Knowledge evaluation sites; title: Comparing customary rules of fairness: evaluative practices in various types of peer review panels / Michèle Lamont and Katri Huutoniemi; title: Meetings by the minute(s): how documents create decisions for institutional review boards / Laura Stark; title: An experiment in interdisciplinarity: proposals and promises / Marilyn Strathern; title: Social knowledge beyond the academy; title: Subjects of persuasion: survey research as a solicitous science; or, the public relations of the polls / Sarah E. Igo; title: The practices of objectivity in regulatory science / Sheila Jasanoff; title: How claims to know the future are used to understand the present: techniques of prospection in the field of national security / Grégoire Mallard and Andrew Lakoff; title: What do market designers do when they design markets? economists as consultants to the redesign of wholesale electricity markets in the United States / Daniel Breslau; title: Financial analysis: epistemic profile of an evaluative science / Karin Knorr Cetina.