Theorists studying how scientific knowledge and technological artifacts are produced, contested and stabilized within social practice, rather than discovered as ready made facts about nature. This group gathers the theorists of the sociology of scientific knowledge, laboratory studies and actor network theory, along with the broader sociology of knowledge tradition that examines how social position and institutional context shape what counts as knowledge in a given time and place.
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Primary Discipline Sociology Of Science And Technology
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Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on human social behaviour, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
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