Lynch’s book lays out the ethnomethodological approach to understanding science, which rejects the “social constructionist” view of e.g. Latour. He argues that Latour just did sign flips in logical positivism while retaining the conceptual framework, which was wrong.
Unfortunately there’s no good intro text for the ethnomethodology of science. A nice example of the work is this one on the first optical observation of a pulsar. However, the jargon is dense at the analytic framework is so alien to what you are used to that it may be opaque…
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Citation here, I can’t find the original journal page off hand: http://emcawiki.net/bibtex/browser.php?key=Garfinkel1981&bib=emca.bib …
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A live-tweeted co-reading of the paper with
@drossbucket, who did her PhD on neutron stars, ended here. It may help clarify the jargon & concepts. Our conversation branched some & twitter doesn’t do tree threading, but this is probably the longest branch:https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/914591862509379585 … - 2 more replies
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