'Stephen Woolgar' is a
sociologist who has worked very close to
Bruno Latour, with whom he co-authored ''Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts''.
He has been Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Human Sciences and Director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) at
Brunel University. He is now Professor of Marketing at the
University of Oxford and a fellow of
Green College.
Main works
★ Laboratory Life: the construction of scientific facts (with
Bruno Latour, Princeton, 1986 (1979))
★ Science: the Very Idea (Routledge, 1988)
★ Knowledge and Reflexivity (edited, Sage, 1988)
★ The Cognitive Turn: sociological and psychological perspectives on science (edited, with S.Fuller and M.de Mey, Kluwer, 1989)
★ Representation in Scientific Practice (edited, with M. Lynch, MIT, 1990)
★ The Machine at Work: technology, organisation and work (with K.Grint, Polity/Blackwell, 1997)
★ Virtual Society? technology, cyberbole, reality (Oxford University Press, 2002)
External links
Professor Steve Woolgar (short biography)