Other Voices: A Response to Labinger.

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Title: Other Voices: A Response to Labinger.
Authors: Marks, Harry M.1 hmarks@welchlink.welch.jhu.edu.us
Source: Social Studies of Science (Sage Publications, Ltd.). May95, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p329-334. 6p.
Subject Terms: *Cultural studies, *Attitude change (Psychology), Science & society, Philosophy of science, Social psychology, Social scientists
Abstract: In the article, the author comments on the article "Science As Culture: A View From the Petri Dish," by Jay A. Labinger, published in this issue of the journal "Social Studies of Science." According to the author, Labinger wants Social and Cultural studies of Science (SCS) practitioners to change their attitudes. They should stop treating scientists and their doings like microbial specimens on a slide, start giving the microbes a little credit for what they have wrought and are capable of wreaking, get out from behind that lens and give social scientists a hand in building culture, society and science. Labinger advises students of science to pay more attention, which according to the author is a poor advice. It is rather hard to locate the science which Labinger repeatedly invokes. Like some of the historians, Labinger may be reacting to the sociologist's habit of slipping unobtrusively from a carefully situated analysis of seventeenth-century experimentation to indiscriminate talk of the nature and status of experimental practices. Labinger appeals for a collaboration between SCSers and scientists, however, the terms and ends are not clear.
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  Data: In the article, the author comments on the article "Science As Culture: A View From the Petri Dish," by Jay A. Labinger, published in this issue of the journal "Social Studies of Science." According to the author, Labinger wants Social and Cultural studies of Science (SCS) practitioners to change their attitudes. They should stop treating scientists and their doings like microbial specimens on a slide, start giving the microbes a little credit for what they have wrought and are capable of wreaking, get out from behind that lens and give social scientists a hand in building culture, society and science. Labinger advises students of science to pay more attention, which according to the author is a poor advice. It is rather hard to locate the science which Labinger repeatedly invokes. Like some of the historians, Labinger may be reacting to the sociologist's habit of slipping unobtrusively from a carefully situated analysis of seventeenth-century experimentation to indiscriminate talk of the nature and status of experimental practices. Labinger appeals for a collaboration between SCSers and scientists, however, the terms and ends are not clear.
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