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What is theory? Answers from the social and cultural sciences
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SYSNO ASEP 0394836 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title Theory has no Big Others in STS Author(s) Stöckelová, Tereza (SOU-Z) RID, ORCID, SAI Source Title What is theory? Answers from the social and cultural sciences. - Stockholm, Copenhagen : Liber and CBS Press, 2013 / Corvellec H. - ISBN 978-91-47-09736-4 Pages s. 88-98 Number of pages 11 s. Number of pages 334 Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country SE - Sweden Keywords science and technology ; studies ; theory Subject RIV AO - Sociology, Demography R&D Projects GP403/09/P203 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Institutional support SOU-Z - RVO:68378025 CEZ AV0Z70280505 - SOU-Z (2005-2011) Annotation I argue in this chapter that we do not need, in STS, to be concerned with losing theory (to descriptions and stories, fieldwork, practice or politics), rather recognizing different forms in which theory is and can be practiced. Along that line, we create a space to further decenter STS theory from masculinity, professional community and the (lab) natural science epistemic order. In all these cases, we should not strive toward simply developing a distinct theory for “other” areas that have fallen out of the domain of the masculine professional natural sciences. The point is to take this back to the natural sciences and rethink the theory of science in a new light. To allow new theories, and forms thereof, to emerge from new empirical material and political engagements. Workplace Institute of Sociology Contact Eva Nechvátalová, eva.nechvatalova@soc.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 220 924 / linka 351 Year of Publishing 2014
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