Scott Frickel

TL;DR: The histories of all modern scientific and intellectual fields are marked by dynamism as discussed by the authors. Yet, despite a welter of case study data, sociologists of ideas have been slow to develop general theories for dynamism.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a cross-sectional view of interdisciplinary communication, knowledge diffusion, research assessment, and interdisciplinary research centers, and provide historical perspectives on the disciplinary system, interdiscipline formation, applied and professional fields, and institutional fragmentation.

TL;DR: The study demonstrates the analytic potential of the concept of undone science to deepen understanding of the systematic nonproduction of knowledge in the institutional matrix of state, industry, and social movements that is characteristic of recent calls for a ‘‘new political sociology of science.’’

TL;DR: In this paper, a long-term historical analysis of a specific physiographic feature (a mountain) is presented, which has undergone little overt physical change over the centuries, but has undergone repeated changes in its social meanings and uses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between the neoliberal variant of globalization and science and develop a framework for sociology of science that emphasizes closer ties among political sociology, the sociology of social movements, and economic and organizational sociology and draws attention to patterns of increasing and uneven industrial influence.