Abstract

Modern science with its seemingly high degree of fragmentation and its apparently endless capacity to generate new specialist fields of knowledge is a salient area in which to investigate the issue of disciplinary culture. In this essay I will look at what the modern sociology of scientific knowledge has to contribute towards our understanding of this topic. I will review some rather general work on science as a form of culture before turning to the specific issue of how disciplinary boundaries and

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