COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Ph.D. READING LIST


10. SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE

(Brush, Friedel, Sumida, Wetzell).

10a. General Works.

10b. Disciplines.

10c. Times and Places (other than U.S.)

10d. Times and Places: United States.

10e. Sociology.

10f. Scientometrics.


10a. General Works.

*Ben-David, J. The Scientist's Role in Society: A Comparative Study, reprint of the 1971 edition with a new introduction. (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1984).

Note: As of Feb. 1992, no Univ. of MD library owned this edition of this book. A book order request will be submitted. A copy of the new introduction (pp. xi-xxvi) is available from the CHPS office.

Brown, J. R.; ed. Scientific Rationality: The Sociological Turn (Reidel, 1984).

Graham, L. R. Between Science and Values (Columbia Univ. Press, 1981).

Hahn, R. "New Directions in the Social History of Science." Physis 17 (1975): 205-218.

Harding, S.; and O'Barr, J. F.; eds. Sex and Scientific Inquiry (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1987).

*Keller, E. F. Reflections on Gender and Science (Yale Univ. Press, 1985).

Keller, E. F. "Feminist Perspectives on Science Studies." Science, Technology, & Human Values 13 (1988): 235-249.

*Price, D. J. de Solla. Little Science, Big Science -- And Beyond (Columbia Univ. Press, 1986).

*Shapin, S. "History of Science and its Sociological Reconstructions." History of Science 20 (1982): 157-211.

Ziman, J. M. An Introduction to Science Studies: The Philosophical and Social Aspects of Science and Technology (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1984).


10b. Disciplines.

*Cannon, S. F. "The Invention of Physics." In Science in Culture: The Early Victorian Period, pp.111-136 (Science History Publications, 1978).

Crosland, M.; and Smith, C. "The Transmission of Physics from France to Britain: 1800-1840." In Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, eds. R. McCormmach and L. Pyenson, vol. 9, pp. 1-61 (The Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1978).

Edge, D. O.; and Mulkay, M. J. Astronomy Transformed: The Emergence of Radio Astronomy in Britain (Wiley, 1976).

Forman, P.; Heilbron, J. L.; and Weart, S. "Physics Circa 1900: Personnel, Funding, and Productivity of the Academic Establishments." In Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, ed. R. McCormmach, vol. 5, pp. 1-185 (Princeton Univ. Press, 1975).

*Graham, L. R.; Lepenies, W.; and Weingart, P.; eds. Functions and Uses of Disciplinary Histories (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1983).

*Greene, M.; et al. Osiris, ser. 2, vol. 1 (1985). Read pp. 97-207; these are articles on the history of American geology, astronomy, chemistry, biology, physics, and social sciences.

Note: As of Feb. 1992, this volume was perpetually missing from the shelf at McKeldin. A request to order this volume will be submitted.

Harman, P. M.; ed. Wranglers and Physicists: Studies on Cambridge Physics in the Nineteenth Century (Machester Univ. Press, 1985).

Hufbauer, K. The Formation of the German Chemical Community, 1720-1795 (Univ. of California Press, 1982).

Jungnickel, C.; and McCormmach, R. Intellectual Mastery of Nature: Theoretical Physics from Ohm to Einstein, 2 vols. (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1986).

Kevles, D. J. The Physicists: The History of a Scientific Community in Modern America (Knopf, 1977).

*McCormmach, R. "Editor's Foreword." In Historical Studies in the Social Aspects of SPhysical Sciences, ed. R. McCormmach, vol. 3, pp. ix-xxiv (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1971).

*Rudwick, M. J. S. The Great Devonian Controversy: The Shaping of Scientific Knowledge among Gentlemanly Specialists (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1985).

Thackray, A.; et al. Chemistry in America, 1876-1976: Historical Indicators (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1985).

Traweek, S. Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists (Harvard Univ. Press, 1988).

Weiner, C. "A New Site for the Seminar: The Refugees and American Physics in the Thirties." Perspectives in American History 2 (1968): 190-234.


10c. Times and Places (other than U.S.).

*Bieniek, R. J. "Evolution of the Two Cultures Controversy." American Journal of Physics 49, no. 5 (1981): 417-424. To be read together with C.P. Snow, cited below.

Feuer, L. S. The Scientific Intellectual: The Psychological & Sociological Origins of Modern Science (Basic Books, 1963). Read chaps. I and II.

Feuer, L. S. "Science and the Ethic of Protestant Asceticism: A Reply to Professor Robert K. Merton." Research in Sociology of Knowledge, Sciences and Art 2 (1979): 1-23. To be read together with the Merton book cited below.

*Forman, P. "Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927: Adaptation by German Physicists and Mathematicians to a Hostile Intellectual Environment." In Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences ed. R. McCormmach, vol. 3, pp. 1-115 (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1971).

Forman, P. "Kausalität, Anschaulichkeit and Individualität, or How Cultural Values Prescribed the Character and the Lessons Ascribed to Quantum Mechanics." In Society and Knowledge: Contemporary Perspectives in the Sociology of Knowledge, ed. N. Stehr and V. Meja, pp. 333-347 (Transaction Books, 1984). Also see Hendry cited below, and Kraft & Kroes cited below.

Fox, R.; and Weisz, G.; eds. The Organization of Science and Technology in France, 1808-1914 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1980).

*Graham, L. R. "The Socio-Political Roots of Boris Hessen: Soviet Marxism and the History of Science." Social Studies of Science 15 (1985): 705-722.

Hahn, R. The Anatomy of a Scientific Institution: The Paris Academy of Sciences, 1666-1803 (Univ. of California Press, 1971).

Hendry, J. "Weimar Culture and Quantum Causality." History of Science 18 (1980): 155-180. Also see Forman's article cited above.

*Jacob, M. C. The Cultural Meaning of the Scientific Revolution (Temple Univ. Press, 1988).

Koizumi, K. "The Emergence of Japan's First Physicists: 1868-1900." In Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences, ed. R. McCormmach, vol. 6, pp. 3-108 (Princeton Univ. Press, 1975).

Kraft, P; and Kroes, P. "Adaptation of Scientific Knowledge to an Intellectual Environment. Paul Forman's `Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918-1927': Analysis and Criticism." Centaurus 27 (1984): 76-99. Also see Forman, cited above.

*Merton, R. K. Science, Technology, & Society in Seventeenth-Century England. (H. Fertig, 1970). Also see Feuer, cited above.

Needham, J. The Grand Titration: Science and Society in East and West (George Allen & Unwin LTD, 1969).

Osiris, ser. 2, vol. 5 (1990): Science in Germany: The Intersection of Institutional and Intellectual Issues.

Pyenson, L. Cultural Imperialism and Exact Sciences: German Expansion Overseas, 1900-1930 (Lang, 1985).

*Shapin, S.; and Thackray, A. "Prosopography as a Research Tool in History of Science: The British Scientific Community 1700-1900." History of Science 12 (1974): 1-28.

*Snow, C. P. The Two Cultures: And a Second Look (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1963). Also see Bieniek, cited above.


10d. Times and Places: United States.

Bruce, R. V. The Launching of American Science, 1846-1876 (Knopf, 1987).

Burnham, J. C. How Superstition Won and Science Lost: Poularization of Science and Health in the United States (Rutgers Univ. Press, 1987).

*Dupree, A. H. Science in the Federal Government: A History of Policies and Activities to 1940, reprint of the 1957 edition with a new preface (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1986).

Note: As of Feb. 1992, no Univ. of MD library owned this edition of this book. A book order request will be submitted.

Kohlstedt, S. G. The Formation of the American Scientific Community: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1848-60 (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1976).

Kohlstedt, S. G.; and Rossiter, M.W.; eds. "Historical Writing on American Science." In Osiris, ser. 2, vol. 1 (1985).

Note: As of Feb. 1992, this volume was perpetually missing from the shelf at McKeldin. A request to order this volume will be submitted.

*Reingold, N.; ed. The Sciences in the American Context: New Perspectives (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979).

*Rossiter, M. W. Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1982).


10e. Sociology.

*Ben-David, J. "Sociology of Scientific Knowledge." In The State of Sociology, ed. J.F. Short, Jr. (Sage Publications, 1981).

*Bloor, D. Knowledge and Social Imagery (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976).

Broad, W.; and Wade, N. Betrayers of the Truth (Simon & Schuster, 1982).

Collins, H. M. "The Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: Studies of Contemporary Science." Annual Review of Sociology 9 (1983): 265-285.

Douglas, M.; ed. Essays in the Sociology of Perception (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982).

Gaston, J.; ed. Sociology of Science (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1978).

*Latour, B.; and Woolgar, S.; eds. Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts (Sage Publications, 1979).

10e. Sociology (continued).

*Laudan, L. "The Pseudo-Science of Science?" Philosophy of the Social Sciences 11 (1981): 173-198.

Also read Bloor, D. "The Strengths of the Strong Programme." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 11 (1981): 199-213.

Lubrano, L. L. Soviet Sociology of Science (American Assoc. Adv. Slavic Studies, 1976).

*Merton, R. K. The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1973).

*Merton, R. K.; and Gaston, J.; eds. The Sociology of Science in Europe (Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1977).

Mulkay, M. "Sociology of Science in the West." Current Sociology 28, no. 3 (1981): 1-184.

Whitley, R. The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences (Clarendon Press, 1984).

Zuckerman, H. Scientific Elite: Nobel Laureates in the United States (Free Press, 1977).


10f. Scientometrics.

Cole, J. R.; and Cole, S. Social Stratification in Science (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1973).

Elkana, Y.; et. al.; eds. Toward a Metric of Science: The Advent of Science Indicators (Wiley, 1978).

Garfield, E. Citation Indexing -- Its Theory and Applications in Science, Technology, and Humanities (Wiley, 1979). Read Chap. 8.

*Menard, H. W. Science: Growth and Change (Harvard Univ. Press, 1971).