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Barry Barnes
Researcher at University of Exeter
Publications - 14
Citations - 193
Barry Barnes is an academic researcher from University of Exeter. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sociological theory & Philosophy of science. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 14 publications receiving 185 citations.
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Agency as a red herring in social theory
Steven Loyal,Barry Barnes +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that there is no fact of the matter, no evidence, however tentative or questionable, that will serve adequately to identify actions "chosen" or "determined" for the purposes of sociological theory.
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Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems – Edited by A. Ong and S. Collier
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Catching up with Robert Merton: Scientific Collectives as Status Groups
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the system of honorific reward through which the norms are sustained in the sciences, and reinforce Merton's original insight that no explanation of this is possible in terms of individual calculative action.
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Elusive Memories of Technoscience
TL;DR: The use of these terms has varied greatly, but their current use presumes a society with extensive institutional and occupational differentiation as discussed by the authors, which makes it surprising that we appear to have very few memories of technoscience in periods less culturally and institutionally diff...