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Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Steve Woolgar is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines, notably neuroscience and social sciences, with a focus on subfields such as sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, history and philosophy of science, and sensory systems.

Their scholarly work addresses topics including contemporary sociological theory and practice, philosophy and history of science, critical realism in sociology, neuroethics and biomedical innovations, olfactory and sensory function studies, and neural and behavioral psychology studies.

Woolgar's recent papers include:

  • The Value of Strident Agnosticism: Dorothy Pawluch and the Endurance of Ontological Gerrymandering (2022, The American Sociologist)
  • Enacting the 'consuming' brain: An ethnographic study of accountability redistributions in neuromarketing practices (2022, The Sociological Review)
  • Bruno Latour (1947-2022) (2022, Nature)

Frequent co-authors in Woolgar's work are Else Vogel, David Moats, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson, Bruno Latour, and Tanja Schneider.

The main publication venues where Woolgar's research has appeared include The American Sociologist, The Sociological Review, and Nature.

Among awards received, Woolgar has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts

    Bruno Latour;Steven Woolgar

  • Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts

    Bruno Latour;Steve Woolgar

  • Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human Machine Communication.

    Steve Woolgar;Lucy A. Suchman

  • The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organization

    Keith Grint;Steve Woolgar

  • Representation in Scientific Practice

    Michael Lynch;Steve Woolgar

  • Configuring the User: The Case of Usability Trials:

    Steve Woolgar

  • Ontological Gerrymandering: The Anatomy of Social Problems Explanations

    Steve Woolgar;Dorothy Pawluch

  • Science, the very idea

    Steve Woolgar

  • The Wrong Bin Bag: A Turn to Ontology in Science and Technology Studies?

    Steve Woolgar;Javier Lezaun

  • Knowledge and reflexivity: New frontiers in the sociology of knowledge.

    Steve Woolgar

  • The Turn to Technology in Social Studies of Science.

    Steve Woolgar

  • Representation in Scientific Practice Revisited

    Catelijne Coopmans;Janet Vertesi;Michael Lynch;Stephen William Woolgar

  • Virtual Society?: Technology, Cyberbole, Reality

    Steve Woolgar

  • La vie de laboratoire : la production des faits scientifiques

    Steve Woolgar;Bruno Latour

  • The Machine at Work

    Keith Grint;Steve Woolgar

  • Lectures on Conversation@@@Talk at Work: Interaction in Institutional Settings

    Steve Woolgar;Harvey Sacks;Gail Jefferson;Paul Drew

  • Five rules of virtuality

    Steve Woolgar

  • Interests and Explanation in the Social Study of Science

    Steve Woolgar

  • Valuation Studies? Our Collective Two Cents

    Hans Kjellberg;Alexandre Mallard;Diane-Laure Arjaliès;Patrick Aspers

  • On Some Failures of Nerve in Constructivist and Feminist Analyses of Technology

    Keith Grint;Steve Woolgar

Frequent Co-Authors

Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour Sciences Po
Keith Grint
Keith Grint University of Warwick
Michèle Lamont
Michèle Lamont Harvard University
Donald MacKenzie
Donald MacKenzie University of Edinburgh
Louise Locock
Louise Locock University of Aberdeen
Nigel Thrift
Nigel Thrift University of Bristol
Steve Fuller
Steve Fuller University of Warwick
Michael Lynch
Michael Lynch Cornell University
Paul Drew
Paul Drew University of York
Jonathan Potter
Jonathan Potter Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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