{"product_id":"science-of-science-and-reflexivity-paperback","title":"Science of Science and Reflexivity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePierre Bourdieu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the last four decades, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu produced one of the most imaginative and subtle bodies of social theory of the postwar era. When he died two years ago, he was considered to be a thinker on a par with Foucault, Barthes, and Lacan-a public intellectual as influential to his generation as Sartre was to his. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eScience of Science and Reflexivity\u003c\/i\u003e will be welcomed as a companion volume to Bourdieu's now seminal \u003ci\u003eAn Invitation to Reflexive Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e. In this posthumous work, Bourdieu declares that science is in danger of becoming a handmaiden to biotechnology, medicine, genetic engineering, and military research-that it risks falling under the control of industrial corporations that seek to exploit it for monopolies and profit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Science thus endangered can become detrimental to mankind. The line between pure and applied science, therefore, must be subjected to intense theoretical scrutiny. Bourdieu's goals in \u003ci\u003eScience of Science and Reflexivity\u003c\/i\u003e are to identify the social conditions in which science develops in order to reclaim its objectivity and to rescue it from relativism and the forces that might exploit it. In the grand tradition of scientific reflections on science, Bourdieu provides a sociological analysis of the discipline as something capable of producing transhistorical truths; he presents an incisive critique of the main currents in the study of science throughout the past half century; and he offers a spirited defense of science against encroaching political and economic forces. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A masterful summation of the principles underlying Bourdieu's oeuvre and a memoir of his own scientific journey, \u003ci\u003eScience of Science and Reflexivity\u003c\/i\u003e is a capstone to one of the most important and prodigious careers in the field of sociology.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePierre Bourdieu\u003c\/b\u003e (1930-2002) was professor of sociology at the Collège de France. He was the author or coauthor of more than twenty works, including \u003ci\u003eDistinction, Homo Academicus, Pascalian Meditations, On Television, State Nobility, Acts of Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAn Invitation to Reflexive Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e, the last published by the University of Chicago Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 8.98 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47454518575282,"sku":"9780226067384","price":59.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/09e5731edbd74bde2628e510043040cc.webp?v=1778853267","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/science-of-science-and-reflexivity-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}