On Mar 22, 6:14=A0pm, "Don Phillipson" <e...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > Ali wrote:
> > > at the moment I'm envolved in a research related to sociology of
> > > science and technology. I would appreciate if anyone can help me in
> > > this. I'm looking for a model of science and technology development
> > > with sociological approach and its related research program.
> "Marvin" <physc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>
> news:97bEj.11807$u62.11596@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > Have you read
> > The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn?
> > It is a classic.
>
> 1. =A0Kuhn's book is indeed a classic, but was written (45 years
> ago) as history, not sociology. =A0 Its original thesis is provocative,
> and was eagerly taken up by sociologists and literary scholars,
> sometimes very far afield from its sources and Kuhn's own
> paradigms (see Kuhn's later writings, notably The Essential Tension.)
>
> 2. =A0The student should probably begin with a textbook. =A0I used to
> recommend the sections on sociology in Durbin's Guide to the
> Culture of Science, Technology and Medicine or Price and
> Spiegel-Roesing's Science, Technology and Society, but I do
> not know what now might be more up-to-date.
>
> 3. =A0The student needs to consider a special paradox.
> 1-- The social sciences were invented in the 19th century
> generally by the application to social subject-matter of the
> methods accepted as best in physics.
> 2-- One of these methods is that "minds do not count"
> or motives do not count -- only social behavior. =A0 This may
> work OK in economics, perhaps even in criminology, but
> presents unique problems in the sociology of science where
> 2a -- Scientists assert the truth of what they believe is central to
> whatever they are doing that may be called "science."
> 2b -- As themselves would-be scientists, the sociologists seem
> to assert that their own beliefs (about how to do social science)
> are irrelevant to the activity.
>
> A prophylactic against this paradox is Stanislas Andreski's
> Social Sciences as Sorcery (1972).
>
> --
> Don Phillipson
> Carlsbad Springs
> (Ottawa, Canada)
Thanks Don
I've looked at Kuhn's but should review it again
I am still anxious if there is any development model according to
sociological approach
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