Summary/Points from: "Science – The very idea"

Science – the very idea, Woolgar

16: Logically K.Poppers ideas make sense, but they assume that observations are neutral.

20: Nominalism/Essentialism: Woolgars use seems similar, though not the same as Poppers position (as in "The Open Society and its Enemies" and others).

22 science used to be excluded from sociologist’s studies

36: Representation precedes the object

42 Science is seen as "what is not social"

46 Any Justification is itself susceptible to need justification

47 "Logic can not just simply "give raise to" action"

54 we tend to think that an object precedes the representation [consider relevance for design where representation always precedes the object that "it creates"]

57: facts do not exist without representation

58: Discovery is not a fixed point in time, but rather a process [e.g. discovery of America or of pulsars]

59 Facts are assertions that are hard to overcome

63 Norms in science are, too, situated

69 rendering discoveries as fixed (might be useful for discourse)

73: [I'm not sure what "Text" is for Woolgar]

75: In science, humans are often described as passive, non-humans as active: "Data suggests"…

101: Agents are seen as unable to change the character of the world. But they are seen to be able to change the character of representations: If they represent "the world correctly" they can speak authoritatively, if they represent "wrong" they are biased.

104 How something "was" (any event) depennds on how the event is recorded (via people, tapes, text)

107 Science is not scientific, but presents itself as such.