306.45 LYN Lynch, Michael. Scientific Practice and Ordinary Action : Ethnomethodology and Social Studies of Science / M. Lynch. - Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1993. - xxi, 333 p. : il. - ISBN 0-521-43152-2. - Текст : непосредственный. Name index : p. 321 - 328. Subject index : p. 329 - 333
Ethnomethodology The demise of the "old" sociology of science The rise of the new sociology of scientific knowledge Phenomenology and protoethnomethodology Wittgenstein, rules and epistemology's topics Molecular sociology From quiddity to haecceity : ethnomethodological studies of work
Philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science have grown increasingly interested in the day-to-day practices of scientists. Recent studies have drawn numerous linkages between scientific innovations and more ordinary procedures, craft skills, and sources of sponsorship. These studies dispute the idea that science is the application of a unified method or the outgrowth of a progressive history of ideas. This book critically reviews arguments and empirical studies in two areas of sociology that have played a significant role in the "sociological turn" in science studies: ethnomethodology (the study of ordinary practical reasoning) and the sociology of scientific knowledge. In both fields, efforts to study scientific practices have led to intractable difficulties and interminable debates, due in part to scientistic and foundationalist commitments that remain entrenched with social-scientific research policies and descriptive language. The central purpose of this book is to explore the possibility of an empirical approach to the epistemic contents of science that avoids the pitfalls of scientism and foundationalism. Michael Lynch is senior lecturer in the department of human sciences, at Brunel, The University of West London. He is the author of "Art and Artifact in Laboratory Science" and coeditor of "Representation in Scientific Practice"
