Scientific practice and ordinary action : ethnomethodology and social studies of science af Michael Lynch (1948-) (Bog)

Contents: Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1 Ethnomethodology ; 2 The demise of the "old" sociology of science ; 3 The rise of the new sociology of scientific knowledge ; 4 Phenomenology and protoethnomethodology ; 5 Wittgenstein, rules, and epistemology's topics ; 6 Molecular sociology ; 7 From quiddity to haecceity: ethnomethodological studies of work ; Conclusion ; Name index ; Subject index

This book critically reviews arguments and empirical studies in two areas of sociology that have had a significant role in the "sociological turn" in science studies: ethnomethodology and the sociology of scientific knowledge. It explores the possibility of an empirical approach to the epistemic contents of science that avoids the pitfalls of scientism and foundationalism.