Inventions in Sociology

Sal Restivo retired in 2017 after a career as a professor, lecturer, and occupant of endowed chairs in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Brazil, and China.  He is a founding member and former president of the Society for Social Studies of Science.  His most recent books are Einstein’s Brain (2020) and Society and the Death of God (2021).

• 1. Paradigms and Programmes.- 2. Give Me a Laboratory and I Will Rewrite Science.- 3. Inside a Scientific Laboratory: An Ethnography of Scientific Practice.- 4. The Invention of Science: An Orientalist Perspective .- 5. The Sociology of Objectivity.- 6. Social Construction: The Fundamental Theorem.- 7. Wild Men and Winnowers: Donald T. Campbell.- 8. Cavaliers And Pointillists: Steve Woolgar.- 9. Surely, You’re Joking, Bruno Latour?.- 10. Science East & West: Joseph Needham.- 11. Dangerous Abstractions: STS and The Unabomber.- 12. The Yin And Yang Of Scientific Practice: Philosophers and Sociologists.- 13. Requiem for Plato: The Sociology of Mathematics.- 14. Your Social Brain: Searching for Mind and Consciousness in John Wayne’s America.- 15. Romancing & Dancing with Robots.- 16. Sustainable Journeys: Daedalus, Icarus, Tantalus and The Future of Science and the World.- 17. Post-Truthism: An Era or an Intellectual Strategy?.- 18. Conclusion: Paradigm For The Sociology of Knowledge.