Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 184
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-8476-8260-7 • Paperback • October 1996 • $50.00 • (£38.00)
Steven C. Ward is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Western Connecticut State University.
Long overdue . . . the first sober attempt to locate the recent science studies literature in the sociology of knowledge tradition. The book should prove accessible to both teachers and students.
— Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, author of Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Era
One of the most lucid and knowledgeable expositions of postmodernism and its paradoxes as one can find in the literature.
— Stephan Fuchs, University of Virginia
a serious and important contribution to sociological theory.
— Kelly Moore, Columbia University; Contemporary Sociology
. . . a worthwile book, and it provides a good starting point for people interested in current debates in science studies.
— Choice Reviews