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Les méthodes en sociologie
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ISBN: 2130453880 9782130453888 Year: 1993 Volume: 1334 Publisher: Paris : PUF - Presses Universitaires de France,

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Le pouvoir et la règle : dynamiques de l'action organisée
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ISBN: 2020196557 9782020196550 Year: 1993 Publisher: Paris : Editions du Seuil,

Researching social life
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ISBN: 0803986815 0803986823 9780803986824 Year: 1993 Publisher: London Newbury Park New Delhi Sage Publications

Scientific practice and ordinary action : ethnomethodology and social studies of science
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ISBN: 0521431522 0521597420 0511625472 0511881835 9780521597425 Year: 1993 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science have grown interested in the daily practices of scientists. Recent studies have drawn 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 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.

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