Rethinking expertise [electronic resource] / Harry Collins and Robert Evans.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943-
Other Authors: Evans, Robert, 1968-
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Expertise.
Science > Social aspects.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2007 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Introduction: Why expertise?
  • The periodic table of expertises 1 : ubiquitous and specialist expertises
  • The periodic table of expertises 2 : meta-expertises and meta-criteria
  • Interactional expertise and embodiment
  • Walking the talk: experiments on color blindness, perfect pitch, and gravitational waves
  • New demarcation criteria
  • Conclusion: science, the citizen, and the role of social science
  • Appendix: waves of science studies.