TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cole,Jonathan R.
AU  - Cole,Stephen
TI  - Smoother pebbles: essays in the sociology of science 
SN  - 9780231212618
AV  - Q175.55 .C65 2024
U1  - 306.450973 C674S 23/eng/20231012
PY  - 2024///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Academic freedom
KW  - Education, Higher
KW  - Women in science
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - "From roughly 1965 to 1995, Columbia University's Department of Sociology was a leading center for social study of science, both nationally and internationally. It was often referred to as the Merton School or Columbia School, and four scholars paved its way: Robert K. Merton, Harriet Zuckerman, Stephen Cole, and Jonathan Cole. The goal of the Columbia School was to create and legitimate a new sociological specialty focusing on the scientific community and the growth of scientific knowledge and they did this by exploring the norms, values, and structure of science. The core values of the scientific and university system and the norms attached to them consisted of deeply held beliefs as well as principles that determined how individuals would act. They were organizing principles designed to support the institution in meeting its goals and mission. They influenced the types of social structures that developed to carry out the activities of scientists. Edited by Jonathan R. Cole, this collection of individually and co-authored papers and essays by Cole represents some of the work produced by Cole and his close collaborators over the past 50 years. the essays are contextualized with an introduction by Cole. The pieces in this volume represent the major concerns on the Columbia School, whose focus of attention was not on the production of individual pieces of knowledge, but on the social systems that made that production possible"--
ER  -