History & Sociology of Science Reading List

1. Introduction
W.G. Gallie, Essentially Contested Concepts, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
Peter Manicas and Alan Rosenberg, Naturalism, Epistemological Individualism, and The Strong
Programme in the Sociology of Knowledge, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
T.F. Gieryn, The Boundaries of Science, Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
M. Callon, Some elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the
Fisherman of St. Brieuc Bay Power, Action, and Belief: A New Sociology of Knowledge?
S.L. Star and J.R. Giesmer, Institutional Ecology, translations and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and
Professionals in Berkeleys Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-1939, Social Studies of Science
Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of
Partial Perspective, Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
B. Pfaffenberger, Social anthropology of Technology, Annual Reviews of Anthropology
P. Boczkowski and L. Lievrouw, Bridging STS and Communication Studies

2. Prehistories of STS
L. Datson and K. Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750
L. Datson and P. Galison, Objectivity
T. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

3. Science & Governmentality
M. Polanyi, The Republic of Science, Minerva
R.K. Merton, The Normative Structure of Sciences The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and
Empirical Investigations
M.J. Mulkay, Norms and Ideology in Science, Social Science Information
S. Visvanathan, On the Annals of the Laboratory State, A Carnival for Science
H. Nowotny, P. Scott, and M. Gibbons, The Co-Evolution of Society and Science, Re-Thinking
Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty
S. Jasanoff, Genealogies of STS, Social Studies of Science
D.K. Price, Escape to the Endless Frontier
D. Hess, Cultures of Science, Handbuch Wissenschafterzsoziologie

4. Science, Politics, Modernity
S. Jasanoff, Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society, States of Knowledge: The Co-Production of
Sciences and Social Order
Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern.
Y. Ezrahi, Science and the Making of Representative Actions, The Descent of Icarus
S. Jasanoff, In a Constitutional Moment: Science and Social Order at the Millennium, Social Studies of
Science and Technology
J. Krige, American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of Science in Europe
D.S. Greenberg, Vannevar Bush and the Myth of Creation, Science, Money, and Politics: Political
Triump and Ethical Erosion
Bloor/Latour/Nottingham Anti-Critique Debate

5. Networks, Materiality, and Power
Y. Ezrahi, Machines and Images of Order, Descent of Icarus
Bourdieu, Men and Machines
B. Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory
T. Pinch and W. Bijker, The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts, The Social Construction of
Technological Systems
L. Winner, Do Artifacts Have Politics? The Whale and the Reactor
B. Joerges, Do Politics Have Artefacts? Social Studies of Science
R. Heilboner, Do Machines Make History? Technology & Culture
Sally Wyatt, Technological Determinism is Dead; Long Live Technological Determinism, The
Handbook of Science and Technology Studies

6. Visual Epistemologies, Visual Governance
M. Foucault, Discipline and Punish
Shapin and Schaffer, Leviathan and the Airpump (Ch. 2: Seeing and Believing)
B. Latour, Drawing Things Together, Representations in Scientific Practice
D. Haraway, teddy Bear Patriarchy, Primate Visions
J.C. Scott, Authoritarian High Modernism, Seeing Like a State
J. Ferguson, Seeing Like and Oil Company: Space, Security, and Global Capital in Neoliberal Africa,
American Anthropologist
M. Mahony, The Predictive State: Science, Territory, and the Future of the Indian Climate, Social
Studies of Science.
N. Mirzoeff, The Right to Look, Critical Inquiry

7. The Hegemony of the Numerical
T. Porter, U.S. Army Engineers and the Rise of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Trust in Numbers
J. Carson, The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science, States of Knowledge
M. Strathern, Introduction: New Accountabilities, and Afterword: Accountability and
Ethnography, Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics, and the Academy
K. Woodward, Statistical Panic, Differences
I. Hacking, The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability,
Induction, and Statistical Inference
M. Poovey, Accommodating Merchants: Accounting, Civility, and the Natural Laws of Gender
differences
See 1_Gieryn for other potential readings

8. Objectivity, and Public Reason on Display
Shapin and Schaffer, Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Y. Ezrahi, Science and the Visual Culture of Liberal-Democratic Politics, Descent of Icarus
S. Gilgartner, Introduction, Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama
S. Jasanoff, The Practices of Objectivity in Regulator Science, Social Knowledge in the Making
P. Galison, Aufbau/Bauhaus: Logical Positivism and Architectural Modernism, Critical Inquiry
B. Wynne, Reflexing Complexity: Post-genomic Knolwedge and Reductionist Returns in Public
Science, Theory, Culture and Society
L. Stark, Introduction Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research



9. Publics, Citizens, and the Knowledge State (against Science)
J. Dewey, Search for the Public, The Public and Its Problems
B. Wynne, Misunderstood Misunderstandings: Social Identities and the Public Uptake of Science,
Misunderstanding Science? The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology
M. Kusch, Towards a Political Philosophy of Risk, Philosophical Perspectives
A. Petryna, Biological Citizenship, Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
S. Jasanoff, Civic Epistemology, Designs on Nature: Science and Demoracy in Europe and the United
States
M. Hardt and A. Negri, Biopolitical Production, Empire
Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, Public Culture
C. Cohn, Nuclear Language and How We Learned to Pat the Bomb, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists