Steve Woolgar
Stephen Woolgar (* 1950 ) is a British sociologist and professor of marketing. His case study Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (1979), which he developed together with Bruno Latour , was widely received in the sociology of science .
Woolgar received his academic training at the University of Cambridge and was Professor of Sociology at Brunel University and the University of Oxford before becoming Professor of Marketing there.
In 2008 he received the Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Study of Science.
Fonts (selection)
- with Bruno Latour : Laboratory Life. The Construction of Scientific Facts , Sage 1979. ISBN 0-691-02832-X .
- Knowledge and Reflexivity: New Frontiers in the Sociology of Knowledge , Sage, 1988.
- Science: the Very Idea , Routledge, 1988.
- with Steve Fuller and M. de Mey (Eds.): The Cognitive Turn: sociological and psychological perspectives on science , Kluwer, 1989.
- Virtual Society? technology, cyberbole, reality , Oxford University Press, 2002.
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| SURNAME | Woolgar, Steve |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Woolgar, Stephen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British sociologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |