Rethinking expertise [electronic resource] / Harry Collins and Robert Evans.

By: Collins, H. M. (Harry M.), 1943-Contributor(s): Evans, Robert, 1968- | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007Description: 159 p. : illSubject(s): Knowledge, Sociology of | Expertise | Science -- Social aspectsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 306.4/5 | 158.1 LOC classification: HM651 | .C64 2007Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction: Why expertise? -- The periodic table of expertises 1 : ubiquitous and specialist expertises -- The periodic table of expertises 2 : meta-expertises and meta-criteria -- Interactional expertise and embodiment -- Walking the talk: experiments on color blindness, perfect pitch, and gravitational waves -- New demarcation criteria -- Conclusion: science, the citizen, and the role of social science -- Appendix: waves of science studies.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-153) and index.

Introduction: Why expertise? -- The periodic table of expertises 1 : ubiquitous and specialist expertises -- The periodic table of expertises 2 : meta-expertises and meta-criteria -- Interactional expertise and embodiment -- Walking the talk: experiments on color blindness, perfect pitch, and gravitational waves -- New demarcation criteria -- Conclusion: science, the citizen, and the role of social science -- Appendix: waves of science studies.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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