JAPHET BAKUWA A critique of Latour and Woolgar’s Argument for the Social Construction of Scientific Facts in Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts (1986)
JAPHET BAKUWA
(BA, University of Malawi; MA (Applied Ethics) Utrecht University, (The Netherlands) is a registered PhD at Stellenbosch University’s Stellenbosch University Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology, Private Bag X1, Matieland, South Africa.
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This paper is an attempt to critique Laboratory Life by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar. This is done
by: presenting a summary of the arguments in the text; contextualising the text (and the authors) in the
scholarship of the time; and assessing whether the authors have succeeded in carrying out the overall
purpose of the book. Suffi ce to say that much as they argue for the social construction of scientifi c
facts, their account of the social construction of facts is probably unconvincing to those researchers
who still conceive the social (or human aff airs) and the scientifi c as two incompatible worlds.
Keywords: argument, social construction, laboratory, scientific knowledge, incompatible, ethnographic,
exogenous, phenomenotechnique.
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