当前位置: X-MOL 学术Engaging Science, Technology, and Society › 论文详情
Our official English website, www.x-mol.net, welcomes your feedback! (Note: you will need to create a separate account there.)
Rethinking Scientific Habitus: Toward a Theory of Embodiment, Institutions, and Stratification of Science
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society Pub Date : 2019-07-03 , DOI: 10.17351/ests2019.303
June Jeon

Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus has been largely absent in Science and Technology Studies (STS) despite its potential usefulness. In this essay, I develop the concept of scientific habitus as a useful way to think about scientific practices. I argue that scientific habitus may offer three contributions that illuminate scientists’ own micro-practices in relation to meso- and macro-level dynamics in the scientific field. First, the concept enables us to think of scientists’ worldviews and bodily techniques as objects of STS analysis. While the majority of STS scholars have focused on the construction of knowledge, scientific habitus allows us to study the construction of the scientists’ body and mind. Secondly, scientific habitus links individual practices with institutional contexts; it highlights how the micro-practices of individuals in scientific laboratories reflect and reproduce macro-social structural power dynamics. Third, scientific habitus reveals mechanisms of stratification within the scientific field. It helps unpack scientists’ practical decisions surrounding research topics, ideas, and data. It also helps explain why and how certain scientific projects are preferred and others left undone. Scientific habitus, therefore, has the potential to contribute to a more encompassing explanation of the relationship between societal structures and the internal logic of the scientific field.

中文翻译:

重新思考科学习惯:走向科学的体现,制度和分层理论

尽管Pierre Bourdieu的潜在用处很大,但它在科学与技术研究(STS)中基本上不存在。在本文中,我提出了科学习性的概念,作为思考科学实践的有用方法。我认为,科学习性可能会提供三方面的贡献,以阐明科学家自身与科学领域中微观和宏观动力学相关的微观实践。首先,这个概念使我们能够将科学家的世界观和身体技术视为STS分析的对象。尽管大多数STS学者专注于知识的构建,但科学的习惯使我们能够研究科学家的身心构造。其次,科学习性将个人实践与制度环境联系起来。它强调了科学实验室中个体的微观实践是如何反映和再现宏观社会结构动力的。第三,科学习性揭示了科学领域内的分层机制。它有助于解开科学家围绕研究主题,思想和数据的实际决策。它还有助于解释为什么以及如何偏爱某些科学项目而另一些却未完成的原因。因此,科学习惯有可能有助于对社会结构与科学领域内部逻辑之间的关系进行更全面的解释。它有助于解开科学家围绕研究主题,思想和数据的实际决策。它还有助于解释为什么以及如何偏爱某些科学项目而另一些却未完成的原因。因此,科学习惯有可能有助于对社会结构与科学领域内部逻辑之间的关系进行更全面的解释。它有助于解开科学家围绕研究主题,思想和数据的实际决策。它还有助于解释为什么以及如何偏爱某些科学项目而另一些却未完成的原因。因此,科学习惯有可能有助于对社会结构与科学领域内部逻辑之间的关系进行更全面的解释。
更新日期:2019-07-03
down
wechat
bug