How far is scientific knowledge a product of social life? In addressing this question, the major contributors to the sociology of knowledge have agreed that the

The major contributors to the sociology of knowledge have agreed that the conclusions of science depend on social action only in a very limited sense. This view

How might social theory, public understanding of science and science policy best inform one another? What have been the key features of science-society relation

To paraphrase Marx, sociologists have only interpreted science; the point is to improve it. The Rational and the Social attempts both. It begins by sketching re

Originally published in 1974.