Bourdieu and Science Studies: Toward a Reflexive Sociology |
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| Authors: | David J Hess |
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| Institution: | (1) Sociology Department, Vanderbilt University, 110 8th St., Sage Building 5th Floor, Nashville, TN 37240, USA;(2) Science and Technology Studies Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th St., Sage Building 5th Floor, Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA |
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| Abstract: | Two of Bourdieu’s fundamental contributions to science studies—the reflexive analysis of the social and human sciences and
the concept of an intellectual field—are used to frame a reflexive study of the history and social studies of science and
technology as an intellectual field in the United States. The universe of large, Ph.D.-granting graduate programs is studied
in two parts. In the first analysis, relations between institutional position and disciplinary type are explored by department.
A positive correlation exists between historians of science and institutional position (as higher prestige or capital). In
the second analysis, attention to intellectual tastes for research topics is explored at an individual level with respect
to departmental position and the individual’s discipline and gender. Scholars in nonelite history of science departments have
low field interest in democracy, social movements, or public participation; environment or sustainability; and gender, race,
or sexuality; whereas those in history of technology programs and nonelite STS programs have a higher field interest in those
areas, and historians of technology have a higher interest in class or labor issues. Among social scientists, there is a higher
interest among scholars in nonelite programs in environment or sustainability and in democracy, social movements, or public
participation. |
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