Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory: 2 (Routledge Library Editions: History and Philosophy of Science)

by Barry Barnes (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $181.30

  Centres on the problem of explaining the manifest variety and contrast in the beliefs about nature held in different groups and societies. This book maintains that the sociologist should treat all beliefs symmetrically and investigate and account for allegedly correct or scientific beliefs just as he would for incorrect or unscientific ones.