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Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 42 Citations 37,957 102 World Ranking 2417 National Ranking 417

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Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Epistemology
  • Social science
  • Law

His primary areas of study are Epistemology, Social science, Human–computer interaction, Philosophy of science and Situated. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Reflexivity, Field and Politics. His work carried out in the field of Social science brings together such families of science as Western thought, History of science and Feature.

His work on Human machine communication, Usability and Web usability as part of general Human–computer interaction study is frequently linked to Usability lab, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of science. The various areas that Steve Woolgar examines in his Philosophy of science study include Social constructionism, Realism, Engineering ethics and Skepticism. His Situated research includes themes of Philosophy of biology, Meaning, Semiotics, Sociobiology and Cognitive science.

His most cited work include:

  • Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (3876 citations)
  • Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts (2674 citations)
  • Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human Machine Communication. (862 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Steve Woolgar mainly focuses on Epistemology, Social science, Reflexivity, Public relations and Sociology of scientific knowledge. In his research, Skepticism is intimately related to Field, which falls under the overarching field of Epistemology. His Social science research incorporates themes from Philosophy of science and Outline of social science.

His research integrates issues of Sociology of knowledge, Ethnography and Media studies in his study of Reflexivity. The study incorporates disciplines such as Knowledge management, Accountability and Social studies in addition to Public relations. His Sociology of scientific knowledge study frequently links to adjacent areas such as Cognition.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Epistemology (36.61%)
  • Social science (14.29%)
  • Reflexivity (9.82%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2008-2020)?

  • Social science (14.29%)
  • Neuromarketing (8.04%)
  • Corporate governance (3.57%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Steve Woolgar spends much of his time researching Social science, Neuromarketing, Corporate governance, Field and Ontology. His work on Consumption as part of general Social science study is frequently connected to Range, therefore bridging the gap between diverse disciplines of science and establishing a new relationship between them. The Neuromarketing study combines topics in areas such as Psychiatry, Medical tourism, Diathesis–stress model, Cognitive science and Neuroeconomics.

His Field study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Reflexivity, Politics and Normative. His Ontology study improves the overall literature in Epistemology. Steve Woolgar focuses mostly in the field of Globalization, narrowing it down to matters related to Media studies and, in some cases, Skepticism, Criticism, Critical engagement and Higher education.

Between 2008 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • The Wrong Bin Bag: A Turn to Ontology in Science and Technology Studies? (218 citations)
  • Valuation Studies? Our Collective Two Cents (74 citations)
  • Does STS Mean Business (69 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Epistemology
  • Social science
  • Law

His main research concerns Fundamental ontology, Ontology, Epistemology, Digital health and Health care. His research in Fundamental ontology intersects with topics in Constructivism, Social constructivism and Slogan. The Ontology study combines topics in areas such as Value, Field, Politics and Normative.

His studies deal with areas such as Qualitative research, Focus group and Questionnaire as well as Digital health. Health care is closely attributed to Constructive criticism in his study.

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Best Publications

Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts

Bruno Latour;Steven Woolgar.
(1979)

19739 Citations

Laboratory Life: The Social Construction of Scientific Facts

Bruno Latour;Steve Woolgar.
Journal for General Philosophy of Science (1986)

4711 Citations

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

Steve Woolgar;Lucy A. Suchman.
Contemporary Sociology (1989)

1371 Citations

Representation in Scientific Practice

Michael Lynch;Steve Woolgar.
Biology and Philosophy (1990)

1113 Citations

Configuring the User: The Case of Usability Trials:

Steve Woolgar.
The Sociological Review (1990)

1090 Citations

Science, the very idea

Steve Woolgar.
(1988)

970 Citations

Ontological Gerrymandering: The Anatomy of Social Problems Explanations

Steve Woolgar;Dorothy Pawluch.
Social Problems (1985)

860 Citations

The Machine at Work: Technology, Work and Organization

Keith Grint;Steve Woolgar.
(1997)

651 Citations

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

Steve Woolgar.
With one exception, the chapters in this volume originated as papers presented at a series of meetings known as 'Discourse Analysis' workshops. The meetings were held at various institutions: University of York (15–16 Apr 1983 and 7–8 Apr 1986); Oxford Polytechnic (7–8 Sep 1983); Brunel University (31 Mar–1 Apr 1984); University of Surrey (13–14 Sep 1984); University of St. Andrews (20–22 Sep 1985); and University of Bradford (22–3 Apr 1987). (1988)

534 Citations

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

Steve Woolgar;Javier Lezaun.
Social Studies of Science (2013)

471 Citations

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