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S. Barry Barnes

S. Barry Barnes was Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter.

Main works
Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory, London; Boston : Routledge and K. Paul, 1974. • Interests and the growth of knowledge, London; Boston : Routledge and K. Paul, 1977. • with Steven Shapin (ed.), Natural order: historical studies of scientific culture, Beverly Hills, Calif; London : Sage Publications, 1979. • with David Edge (ed.), Science in context : readings in the sociology of science, Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 1982. • T. S. Kuhn and Social Science (Traditions in Social Theory), London : Macmillan, 1982. • About science, Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1985. • The Nature of power, Cambridge : Polity, 1988. • Grays Thurrock district : a pictorial history, Chichester : Phillimore, 1988; 1991. • The Elements of social theory, London : UCL Press, 1995. • with David Bloor & John Henry, Scientific knowledge : a sociological analysis, Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996. == Selected articles ==
Selected articles
On the Conventional Character of Knowledge and Cognition in: Philosophy of the Social Sciences 11/3, 1981, pp. 303–333- • Relativism, Rationalism and the Sociology of Knowledge (with David Bloor) in: Hollis, M./Lukes, S. (ed.): Rationality and Relativism, Cambridge (Mass.), MIT Press, 1982, pp. 21–47. • On the Extensions of Concepts and the Growth of Knowledge in: Sociological Review 30/1, 1982, pp. 23–45. • Relativism as a Completion of the Scientific Project in: Schantz, R./Seidel, M. (ed.): The Problem of Relativism in the Sociology of (Scientific) Knowledge, Frankfurt, ontos, 2011, pp. 23–39. == References ==
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