Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to Social Knowledge in the Making turn their attention to the social sciences, broadly construed. The result is the first comprehensive effort to study and understand the day-to-day activities involved in the creation of social-scientific and related forms of knowledge about the social world. The essays collected here tackle a range of previously unexplored questions about the practices involved in the production, assessment, and use of diverse forms of social knowledge. A stellar cast of multidisciplinary scholars addresses topics such as the changing practices of historical research, anthropological data collection, library usage, peer review, and institutional review boards. Turning to the world beyond the academy, other essays focus on global banks, survey research organizations, and national security and economic policy makers. Social Knowledge in the Making is a landmark volume for a new field of inquiry, and the bold new research agenda it proposes will be welcomed in the social science, the humanities, and a broad range of nonacademic settings. Charles Camic is the John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Neil Gross is associate professor of sociology at the University of British Columbia. Michèle Lamont is the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and professor of sociology and African and Africa American Studies at Harvard University. Publisher's note

Camic, Charles; Gross, Neil, 1971-; Lamont, Michèle, 1957-

United States, United States of America

Chicago, London, Illinois, 2011

Illustrated, PT, 2011

This book contains pen markings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Knowledge Production In The Disciplines -- Library Research Infrastructure For Humanistic And Social Scientific Scholarship In The Twentieth Century / Andrew Abbott -- In Clio's American Atelier / Anthony T. Grafton -- Filing The Total Human: Anthropological Archives From 1928 To 1963 / Rebecca Lemov -- Academic Conferences And The Making Of Philosophical Knowledge / Neil Gross And Crystal Fleming -- Practical Foundations Of Theorizing In Sociology: The Case Of Pierre Bourdieu / Johan Heilbron -- Knowledge Evaluation Sites -- Comparing Customary Rules Of Fairness: Evaluative Practices In Various Types Of Peer Review Panels / Michèle Lamont And Katri Huutoniemi -- Meetings By The Minute(s): How Documents Create Decisions For Institutional Review Boards / Laura Stark -- An Experiment In Interdisciplinarity: Proposals And Promises / Marilyn Strathern -- Social Knowledge Beyond The Academy -- Subjects Of Persuasion: Survey Research As A Solicitous Science; Or, The Public Relations Of The Polls / Sarah E. Igo -- The Practices Of Objectivity In Regulatory Science / Sheila Jasanoff -- How Claims To Know The Future Are Used To Understand The Present: Techniques Of Prospection In The Field Of National Security / Grégoire Mallard And Andrew Lakoff -- What Do Market Designers Do When They Design Markets? Economists As Consultants To The Redesign Of Wholesale Electricity Markets In The United States / Daniel Breslau -- Financial Analysis: Epistemic Profile Of An Evaluative Science / Karin Knorr Cetina. Edited By Charles Camic, Neil Gross, And Michèle Lamont. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

xi, 471 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Knowledge production in the disciplines -- Library research infrastructure for humanistic and social scientific scholarship in the twentieth century / Andrew Abbott -- In Clio's American atelier / Anthony T. Grafton -- Filing the total human: anthropological archives from 1928 to 1963 / Rebecca Lemov -- Academic conferences and the making of philosophical knowledge / Neil Gross and Crystal Fleming -- Practical foundations of theorizing in sociology: the case of Pierre Bourdieu / Johan Heilbron -- Knowledge evaluation sites -- Comparing customary rules of fairness: evaluative practices in various types of peer review panels / Michèle Lamont and Katri Huutoniemi -- Meetings by the minute(s): how documents create decisions for institutional review boards / Laura Stark -- An experiment in interdisciplinarity: proposals and promises / Marilyn Strathern -- Social knowledge beyond the academy -- Subjects of persuasion: survey research as a solicitous science; or, the public relations of the polls / Sarah E. Igo -- The practices of objectivity in regulatory science / Sheila Jasanoff -- How claims to know the future are used to understand the present: techniques of prospection in the field of national security / Grégoire Mallard and Andrew Lakoff -- What do market designers do when they design markets? economists as consultants to the redesign of wholesale electricity markets in the United States / Daniel Breslau -- Financial analysis: epistemic profile of an evaluative science / Karin Knorr Cetina

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