Paradoxical Roots of “Social Construction” Michael Polanyi and His Generation Origins of the Social Construction of Science by Mary Jo Nye University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2011. 427 pp. $45, £29. ISBN 9780226610634.

Abstract

Nye locates the roots of the "social turn" (highlighting the importance of social communities, behavioral norms, and personal commitments) in the scientific culture and political events of 1930s Europe.