Scientific Community

MEMBERSHIP, STATUS AND INTERACTIONS

"Membership" of the community is generally, but not exclusively, a function of Education , Employment Status , and Institutional Affiliation . Status within the community is largely a function of publication record. Sociologists Who Have Studied Scientific Communities have often found that Gender , Race , and Class can be strong factors for an accepted entrance into the community.

Members of the same community do not need to work together. Communication between the members is established by disseminating research work and hypotheses through articles in Peer Review ed Journals , or by attending Conference s where new research is presented and ideas exchanged and discussed. There are also many informal methods of communication of scientific work and results as well. And many in a coherent community may actually ''not'' communicate all of their work with one another, for various professional reasons.

SEE ALSO

Epistemology

Objectivity (philosophy)

REFERENCES AND EXTERNAL ARTICLES

;Sociologies of science

Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, "''Laboratory life: the social construction of scientific facts''". Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, 1979.

Sharon Traweek, "''Beamtimes and lifetimes: the world of high energy physicists''". Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, ''Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life''". Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985).

Thomas Kuhn , "'' The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions ''". Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.

Peter M. Haas. "'' Introduction: epistemic communities and international policy coordination ''". International Organization, v. 46, n. 1, winter 1992, pp. 1-35. ( PDF )

"'' Producing Communities’ as a Theoretical Challenge ; Social order in scientific communities''". TASA 2001 Conference, The University of Sydney, 13-15 December 2001. ( PDF )

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