Steve Woolgar is a sociologist who has worked very close to Bruno Latour, with whom he co-authored Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts. Sociology is the study of the social lives of humans, groups and societies. ... Bruno Latour Bruno Latour (born June 1947, Beaune, France) is a French sociologist of science best known for his books We Have Never Been Modern, Laboratory Life, and Science in Action, describing the process of scientific research from the perspective of social construction based on field observations of working scientists. ...
He has been Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Human Sciences and Director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) at Brunel University. He is now Professor of Marketing at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Brunel University is one of the new British universities, having been founded within the last half century. ... Saïd Business School (or short SBS) is the business school at the University of Oxford in England. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...
Main works
Laboratory Life: the construction of scientific facts (with Bruno Latour, Princeton, 1986)
Science: the Very Idea (Routledge, 1988)
Knowledge and Reflexivity (edited, Sage, 1988)
The Cognitive Turn: sociological and psychological perspectives on science (edited, with S.Fuller and M.de Mey, Kluwer, 1989)
Representation in Scientific Practice (edited, with M. Lynch, MIT, 1990)
The Machine at Work: technology, organisation and work (with K.Grint, Polity/Blackwell, 1997)
Virtual Society? technology, cyberbole, reality (Oxford University Press, 2002)
The extent of Latour and Woolgar's difficulties in the philosophy of science is not yet fully apparent in a science like neuro‑endocrinology-‑the area of research of the laboratory they studied--engaged in studying the timeless laws of nature.
A fourth reason for distinguishing the world from our representations of it is that especially in natural science the sequential order of the underlying bases in nature is almost systematically opposite to the order in which we are aware of their existence and also usually opposite to the order in which they were discovered.
A second argument of Latour and Woolgar against realistic epistemology is the great and prolonged effort often needed to reveal the truth about a certain topic, and the many contrary opinions often pronounced before the definitive solution of a problem.
SteveWoolgar es un sociólogo, en concreto llamado sociológo de la ciencia, pues su interés se centra en la ciencia y en la tecnología.
SteveWoolgar ha dado soporte a multitud de convenciones y encuentros de sociología como el Sociology'79-81 en la McGill University, el Program in Science Technology and Society'83-84 en la MIT, el Centre de Sociología de la Innovación'88-89 en la Escuela de Minas de París i la Sociology'95-96 en la UC San Diego.
SteveWoolgar centra sus investigaciones en estudios sociales de ciencia y tecnología, las implicaciones sociales de las tecnologías electrónicas, les tecnologías de representación y evidencia visual, relaciones de autoridad y responsabilidad, tecnologías mundaneas; y teoría social.
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