Page 97 - Introducing Cultural Studies

After Feyerabend, the leading edge passed from philosophy to the
behavioural studies of science. The demystifying, debunking tone
became dominant. By the end of the 1970s, cultural studies of
science had developed into a fully-fledged subject going under
various rubrics: "science, technology and society", "science policy
studies" and "social studies of science".

In the 1980s, Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar inaugurated a new
wave of cultural studies of science with the publication of Laboratory
Life (1979), subtitled "Social Construction of Scientific Facts". This
was an explicitly ironic study, with the investigators adopting a
pseudo-naive pose.

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