SOCI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tacit Knowledge, Conversation Analysis, Enculturation
11 Apr 2020
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In the 1970s and 1980s, sts scholars began conducting ethnographies in scientific labs. If scientific knowledge has a social component, scholars should focus on the process of knowledge creation. Study the formulation of facts in a lab just as you would study any social process - field work, ethnography, conversation analysis, interviews. A big part of scientific cannot be written down, but is embodied in skills, "tinkering", and tacit knowledge. " experiments do not work; the numbers have to be cooked, the reaction doesn"t react, the phage does not grow. Scientific observations findings, and facts are not apparent, but must be actively constructed. Scientists must engage in translation of facts and data for different purposed. Replication involved transmitting knowledge about a phenomena of interest. "a finite series of unambiguous instructions which can be formulated [and] transferred" Reproduction relies on shared assumptions, skills, and baseline.
