A New Way of Thinking about Social Location in Science

Autor/in	Schmaus, Warren
Titel	A New Way of Thinking about Social Location in Science
Quelle	In: Science & Education, 17 (2008) 10, S.1127-1137 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0926-7220
DOI	10.1007/s11191-007-9129-z
Schlagwörter	Scientists; Hypothesis Testing; Science and Society; Professional Isolation; Social Isolation; Interprofessional Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Scientist; Wissenschaftler; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Soziale Isolation
Abstract	The Durkheimian concept of the density of social relationships may prove more fruitful than the historical materialist notion of a social hierarchy for thinking about the social location of epistemic agents in science. To define a scientist's social location in terms of the density of her professional relationships with other scientists permits us to give a more precise characterization of marginalization and thus to formulate more testable hypotheses about marginalized groups in science. The notion of social density helps to explain not only how some individual scientists are more likely than others to get a hearing for their ideas, but also how scientific inquiry flourishes more in some societies than in others. (As Provided).
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