Sociology & Anthropology · Sociology of Religion, Science & Technology
A topic within Sociology of Religion, Science & Technology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Sociology & Anthropology.
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Bruno Latour
Argues Pasteur's success came not from persuading people of a truth discovered in the lab but from redesigning the world outside it -- farms, hygiene practices, whole industries -- so that it behaved the way his laboratory already did.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Sheila Jasanoff
Argues that technical decision-making needs institutions built for admitting the limits of prediction and control -- humility -- rather than ones built only to project confident expertise, because the framing, distributional and cultural questions a technology raises are never purely technical.
link checked 17 Sept 2026