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Science of Science and Reflexivity

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ISBN-10: 0226067386

ISBN-13: 9780226067384

Edition: 2004

Authors: Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Nice

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Over the last four decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died two years ago, he was considered to be a thinker on a par with Foucault, Barthes, and Lacan--a public intellectual as influential to his generation as Sartre was to his. Science of Science and Reflexivity will be welcomed as a companion volume to Bourdieu's now seminal An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology. In this posthumous work, Bourdieu declares that science is in danger of becoming a handmaiden to biotechnology, medicine, genetic engineering, and military research--that it risks falling under the control of…    
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Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 168
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Pierre Bourdieu(1930-2002) was professor of sociology at the Collège de France. He is the author or coauthor of more than twenty works, includingDistinction,Homo Academicus,Pascalian Meditations,On Television,State Nobility,Acts of Resistance,An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, andScience of Science and Reflexivity, the last two also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Foreword
Introduction
The state of the question
An enchanted vision
Normal science and scientific revolutions
The 'strong programme'
A well-kept open secret
A world apart
The 'craft' of the scientist
Autonomy and the conditions of entry
Scientific capital, its forms and distribution
A regulated struggle
History and truth
Why the social sciences must take themselves as their object
Objectivating the subject of objectivation
Sketch for a self-analysis
Conclusion
Bibliography