Steve Woolgar

Stephen Woolgar
Born	(1950-02-14) 14 February 1950
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Influences	Bruno Latour
Academic work
Main interests	Sociologist
Notable works	Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts

Stephen Woolgar (born 14 February 1950), is a British sociologist. He has worked closely with Bruno Latour, with whom he wrote Laboratory Life: the Social Construction of Scientific Facts (1979).

Education

Stephen Woolgar holds a B.A. (First Class Honours) in engineering and a DPhil in sociology, both at the University of Cambridge.

Career

He has been Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Human Sciences and director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) at Brunel University. He holds the Chair of Sociology and Marketing and is a professor of marketing at the University of Oxford and a fellow at Green Templeton College. He is also director of Science and Technology Studies within Oxford's Institute for Science, Innovation and Society. He is an important contributor in the fields of science studies, sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) and the science and technology studies (STS) (especially on the topic of sociology of machines). Stephen Woolgar is a recipient of the John Desmond Bernal Prize in 2008 awarded annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science to an individual judged to have made a distinguished contribution to the field.

Selected bibliography

Books

• Woolgar, Steve; Latour, Bruno (1986) [1979]. Laboratory life: the construction of scientific facts. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691094182. Originally published 1979 in Los Angeles, by Sage Publications
• Woolgar, Steve (1993) [1988]. Science: the very idea. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415084758.
• Woolgar, Steve (1988). Knowledge and reflexivity: new frontiers in the sociology of knowledge. London: Sage. ISBN 9780803981201.
• Woolgar, Steve; Fuller, Steve; de Mey, Marc; Shinn, Terry (1989). The cognitive turn: sociological and psychological perspectives on science. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. ISBN 9789401578257.
• Woolgar, Steve; Lynch, Michael (1990). Representation in scientific practice. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262620765.
• Woolgar, Steve; Grint, Keith (1997). The machine at work: technology, work, and organization. Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts: Polity Press. ISBN 9780745609256.
• Woolgar, Steve (2002). Virtual society? Technology, cyberbole, reality. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780191593963.
• Woolgar, Steve; Lynch, Michael; Coopmans, Catelijne; Vertesi, Janet (2014). Representation in scientific practice revisited. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262525381.

Chapter in books

• Woolgar, Steve (1992), "Some remarks about positionism: A reply to Collins and Yearley", in Pickering, Andrew (ed.), Science as practice and culture, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 327–342, ISBN 9780226668017. {{citation}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)

Journal articles

• Woolgar, Steve; Mulkay, Michael; Gilbert, G. Nigel (May 1975). "Problem areas and research networks in science". Sociology. 9 (2). Sage: 187–203. doi:10.1177/003803857500900201. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)

External links

• Oxford home page
• Professor Steve Woolgar (short biography)
• Society for Social Studies of Science
• Institute for Science, Innovation and Society