Stephen Woolgar is a British
sociologistSociology is the scientific or systematic study of human societies. It is a branch of social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, often with the goal of applying such...
. He has worked closely with
Bruno LatourBruno Latour is a French sociologist of science, anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies...
, with whom he co-authored
Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific FactsLaboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts is a 1979 book by sociologists of science Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar.This influential book in the field of science studies presents an anthropological study of Roger Guillemin's scientific laboratory at the Salk Institute...
(1979).
He has been Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Human Sciences and Director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) at
Brunel UniversityBrunel University is a higher education institution situated in West London, England. In the latest Government Research Assessment Exercise, 82% of research submitted was rated as of international standing...
. He holds the Chair of Sociology and Marketing and is Professor of Marketing at the
University of OxfordThe University of Oxford , located in the UK city of Oxford, is the oldest surviving university in the English-speaking world and is regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions. Although the exact date of foundation remains unclear, there is evidence of teaching there as far back...
and a fellow of Green Templeton College.
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Stephen Woolgar is a British
sociologistSociology is the scientific or systematic study of human societies. It is a branch of social science that uses various methods of empirical investigation and critical analysis to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, often with the goal of applying such...
. He has worked closely with
Bruno LatourBruno Latour is a French sociologist of science, anthropologist and an influential theorist in the field of Science and Technology Studies...
, with whom he co-authored
Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific FactsLaboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts is a 1979 book by sociologists of science Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar.This influential book in the field of science studies presents an anthropological study of Roger Guillemin's scientific laboratory at the Salk Institute...
(1979).
He has been Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Human Sciences and Director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) at
Brunel UniversityBrunel University is a higher education institution situated in West London, England. In the latest Government Research Assessment Exercise, 82% of research submitted was rated as of international standing...
. He holds the Chair of Sociology and Marketing and is Professor of Marketing at the
University of OxfordThe University of Oxford , located in the UK city of Oxford, is the oldest surviving university in the English-speaking world and is regarded as one of the world's leading academic institutions. Although the exact date of foundation remains unclear, there is evidence of teaching there as far back...
and a fellow of Green Templeton College. He is also Director of Science and Technology Studies within Oxford's Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. He is an important contributor in the fields of
Science StudiesScience studies is an interdisciplinary research area that seeks to situate scientific expertise in a broad social, historical, and philosophical context. It is concerned with the history of scientific disciplines, the interrelationships between science and society, and the alleged covert...
,
sociology of scientific knowledgeThe sociology of scientific knowledge involves the study of science as a social activity, especially dealing "with the social conditions and effects of science, and with the social structures and processes of scientific activity." It consists of studying the development of a scientific field and...
(SSK) and the
Science and technology studiesScience and technology studies or scientotechnological studies is the study of how social, political, and cultural values affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these in turn affect society, politics, and culture...
(STS) (especially on the topic of sociology of machines). Stephen Woolgar is a recipient of the Bernal Prize in 2008 awarded annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science to an individual judged to have made a distinguished contribution to the field.
Stephen Woolgar holds a B.A (First Class Honours) in Engineering from the University of Cambridge and a DPhil in Sociology also from the University of Cambridge.
Main works
- with Bruno Latour, Laboratory Life: the construction of scientific facts, Princeton, 1986 (1979).
- Science: the Very Idea, Routledge, 1988.
- (ed.), Knowledge and Reflexivity edited, Sage, 1988.
- with Steve Fuller
Steve William Fuller is an American philosopher-sociologist in the field of science and technology studies.-Biography:...
and M. de Mey (eds), The Cognitive Turn: sociological and psychological perspectives on science, Kluwer, 1989.
- with Michael Lynch (eds), Representation in Scientific Practice, MIT, 1990.
- with K. Grint, The Machine at Work: technology, organisation and work, Polity/Blackwell, 1997.
- Virtual Society? technology, cyberbole, reality, Oxford University Press, 2002.
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