Chemla, Karine Carole (Editor)
Keller, Evelyn Fox (Editor)
Duke University Press
Physical Details: 413 pages
Language: English
Cultural accounts of scientific ideas and practices have increasingly come to be welcomed as a corrective to previous—and still widely held—theories of scientific knowledge and practices as universal. The editors caution, however, against the temptation to overgeneralize the work of culture, and to lapse into a kind of essentialism that flattens the range and variety of scientific work. The book refers to this tendency as culturalism. The contributors to the volume model a new path where historicized and cultural accounts of scientific practice retain their specificity and complexity without falling into the traps of culturalism. They examine, among other issues, the potential of using notions of culture to study behavior in financial markets; the ideology, organization, and practice of earthquake monitoring and prediction during China's Cultural Revolution; the history of quadratic equations in China; and how studying the "glass ceiling" and employment discrimination became accepted in the social sciences. Demonstrating the need to understand the work of culture as a fluid and dynamic process that directly both shapes and is shaped by scientific practice, Cultures without Culturalism makes an important intervention in science studies. Contributors. Bruno Belhoste, Karine Chemla, Caroline Ehrhardt, Fa-ti Fan,Kenji Ito, Evelyn Fox Keller, Guillaume Lachenal, Donald MacKenzie, Mary S. Morgan, Nancy J. Nersessian, David Rabouin, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Claude Rosental, Koen Vermeir
...MoreReview Michael J. Barany (2018) Review of "Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (pp. 275-278).
Review Chen-Pang Yeang (2017) Review of "Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge". East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 463-466).
Chapter Bruno Belhoste (2017) From Quarry to Paper: Cuvier's Three Epistemological Cultures. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 250-277).
Chapter Kenji Ito (2017) Cultural Difference and Sameness: Historiographic Reflections on Histories of Physics in Modern Japan. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 49-68).
Chapter Fa-ti Fan (2017) The People's War against Earthquakes: Cultures of Mass Science in Mao's China. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 296-326).
Chapter Mary S. Morgan (2017) Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors: Drawing New Ontologies. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 145-169).
Chapter Evelyn Fox Keller (2017) Worrying about Essentialism: From Feminist Theory to Epistemological Cultures. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 99-116).
Chapter Nancy J. Nesessian (2017) Hybrid Devices: Embodiments of Culture in Biomedical Engineering. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 117-144).
Chapter David Rabouin (2017) Styles in Mathematical Practice. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 196-226).
Chapter Koen Vermeir (2017) Historicizing Culture: A Revaluation of Early Modern Science and Culture. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 227-249).
Chapter Karine Chemla (2017) Changing Mathematical Cultures, Conceptual History, and the Circulation of Knowledge: A Case Study Based on Mathematical Sources from Ancient China. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 352-398).
Chapter Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (2017) Cultures of Experimentation. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 278-295).
Chapter Claude Rosental (2017) Modes of Exchange: The Culture and Politics of Public Demonstrations. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 170-195).
Chapter Guillaume Lachenal (2017) The Cultural Politics of an African AIDS Vaccine: The Vanhivax Controversy in Cameroon, 2001-2011. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 69-98).
Chapter Donald MacKenzie (2017) On Invoking "Culture" in the Analysis of Behavior in Financial Markets. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 29-48).
Chapter Caroline Ehrhardt (2017) E Uno Plures? Unity and Diversity in Galois Theory, 1832-1900. In: Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific Knowledge (pp. 327-351).
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