Laboratory ethnography /
The 1970s saw the first ethnographies of scientific laboratories by early proponents of science and technology studies (STSs). This body of work set about demonstrating the local accomplishment and social construction of scientific knowledge. This entry begins by providing an overview of the ways in...
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| Other Authors: | , , , , |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications Ltd.,
2020.
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| Series: | Visual and sensory ethnography.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The 1970s saw the first ethnographies of scientific laboratories by early proponents of science and technology studies (STSs). This body of work set about demonstrating the local accomplishment and social construction of scientific knowledge. This entry begins by providing an overview of the ways in which laboratory ethnography has emerged in relation to STS and considers some of these early classic examples in more detail. It then discusses some scholarship written since the millennium on laboratory ethnography and the methodological issues they raise. This is followed by a discussion of practical issues that ethnographers might face when setting out to conduct laboratory observations of their own. Specifically discussed are (i) sampling and negotiating access, (ii) ethics, (iii) inside the laboratory, (iv) out of the laboratory, ... |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781529746914 1529746914 9781526421036 1526421038 |