A workshop on Science and Technology Studies (STS) participated by the prominenent sociologists and historians of science Harry Collins (Cardiff University), Andrew Pickering (University of Exeter), Trevor Pinch (Cornell University)
Seminar program (pdf 28KB)
More than thirty years ago, a group of young radicals (Steve Woolgar, Karen Knorr, Harry Collins, Bruno Latour, Michael Lynch, Michael Mulkay, Steven Shapin) announced the end of first, Merton, wave of the sociology of science and the beginning of new wave of understanding of the sociology of science. Instead of the structures of academic institutions that more or less make for the successful development of research, the focus of their attention was the dependence of what was then universally accepted as the "objective fact" of cultural and social conditions of its production. At the same time, the relativist second wave appealing for a rethinking of the very idea of “nature” as something passively expected of research. “Inanimate” agents can and should be included in science about society on par with “animate,” they announced. A quarter of a century later, in 2002, Harry Collins, one of the brightest representatives of the “second wave,” declared a new wave, a “Third,” which modified the theoretical progress of the “Second” in a program of social transformation, which incited a fierce polemic among his associates. At a meeting at EUSP, Harry Collins, Andrew Pickering, and Trevor Lynch, in a discussions with their Russian colleagues (Anna Artyushina, Olga Bychkova, Mikhail Sokolov, Oleg Kharkhordin and others), will expound upon their views of new directions in the dvelopment of research science and technology.
Seminar readings
Harry Collins (pdf 1,4MB)
Mikhail Sokolov (pdf 95KB, pdf 23KB)
Andrew Pickering (pdf, 48KB)
Anna Artiushina (pdf 234KB)
Trevor Pinch (pdf, 94KB)
