Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Meyer, Morgan
• Molyneux-Hodgson, Susan

Titel

Introduction: The Dynamics of Epistemic Communities

Ist Teil von

• Sociological research online, 2010-05, Vol.15 (2), p.1-7

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

Free E-Journal (出版社公開部分のみ）

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Scientific communities matter. The enduring importance of journals, conferences, university departments, peers, discussion lists, museums, as well as the formation of new kinds of collectives around new problems and mediums prove this point. Science is a collective activity. The 'matter' of communities needs, therefore, continuous academic scrutiny. This is what this Special Section within Sociological Research Online sets out to do: to focus on the matter of communities and assess established ways, and propose new ways, to analyse and conceptualise them. Our focus here is on 'epistemic communities', that is, communities concerned with producing and disseminating knowledge. In this introduction we pursue a threefold aim: providing a brief genealogy of the concept and discussing related concepts of community; introducing the papers in this special section; and proposing a more sociological reading of epistemic communities. Adapted from the source document.