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Sep 27, 2024
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HC 881 - Experts, Intellectuals, and Scientists: History and the Socioloy of Knowledge3 credits
Conceptions of the role of the expert, the intellectual, and especially the scientist have shifted dramatically over the course of the twentieth century, resulting in radical changes in the image and authority of each. Starting with foundational texts in the history of the sociology of knowledge, this course seeks to treat “science” as a particular case study in the broader history of intellectual expertise. From early gentlemens agreements at the Royal Society to the all-out science wars of the 1990s, and from large macroscale concerns that attempted to relate science to democracy and Marxism (both of which treated science as a distinctive and objective form of knowledge) to later provocative microscale studies that challenged received notions of “truth”, “fact” and “scientist” altogether, we will incorporate perspectives from classical sociology, anthropology, epistemology, and literary theory, along with critiques from gender studies and science studies, in an attempt to better un
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