The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-924045-6 (ISBN)
For this new paperback edition Richard Whitley - a leading figure in European business education - has written a new introduction which addresses the particular epistemological issues presented by management and business studies. He approaches the sciences as differently organized systems for the production and validation of knowledge - systems which become established in particular contexts and which generate different sorts of knowledge. He identifies seven major types of scientific field and discusses the establishment and growth of these sciences, including the major consequences of the nineteenth-century expansion of employment opportunities for researchers; the competitive pursuit of public reputations; and the domination of intellectual work by employees. He also examines the divergences in the way research is organized and controlled both in different fields, and in the same field within different historical circumstances.
This book will be of interest to all graduate students concerned with the social study of knowledge, science, technology, and the history and philosophy of science.
Richard Whitley is Professor of Organizational Sociology at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He has also held visiting academic appointments at the University of Hitotsubashi (1999-2000), the International University of Japan (1993), University of Hong Kong (1988), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris (1987), University of Amsterdam (1982), St Anthony's College, Oxford (1981), and the Inter-University Graduate School of Management, Delft, The Netherlands (1977, 1979).
Chapter 1: The Modern Sciences as Reputational Work Organizations ; Chapter 2: Reputational Control over Scientific Work and the Growth of Employment Opportunities for Scientists ; Chapter 3: The Degree of Mutual Dependence Between Scientists and the Organization of Scientific Fields ; Chapter 4: The Degree of Task Uncertainty and the Organization of Scientific Fields ; Chapter 5: The Organizational Structure of Scientific Fields ; Chapter 6: The Contexts of Scientific Fields ; Chapter 7: Relationships between Scientific Fields and Changes in the Organization of the Sciences
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.6.2000 |
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Zusatzinfo | tables |
Verlagsort | Oxford |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 139 x 217 mm |
Gewicht | 443 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
Naturwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-924045-0 / 0199240450 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-924045-6 / 9780199240456 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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