The definition of eponymy includes the cautionary phrase,'or are believed to have
discovered,* in order to take due note of" Bugler's Law of Eponymy" which in its strongest …

Innovations are adopted when users integrate them in meaningful ways into existing social
practices. Histories of major technological innovations show that often the creative initiative …

False data published by a psychologist influence policies for treating the mentally retarded.
A Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist resigns the presidency of Rockefeller University …

There currently does not exist what can be called an economic sociology of law-that is, a
sociological analysis of the role of law in economic life. Before trying to outline what such an …

In late 2009, e-mails from a server at the Climate Research Unit at the University of East
Anglia were released that showed some climate scientists in an unfavorable light. Soon this …

The transformation of sound recording into a scientific technique in the study of birdsong, as
biologists turned wildlife sounds into scientific objects. Scientific observation and …

Issues surrounding data access, ownership, and control raise important issues for science
policy. The new sociology of science has examined many features of scientific knowledge …

In ‚Principles of Economic Sociology'skizziert Richard Swedberg, einer der Wegbereiter der
neuen Wirtschaftssoziologie, die Konturen dieser vielversprechenden, in den 1980er Jahren …

In 1991, the myotonic dystrophy gene was cloned by researchers from Cardiff, London, and
elsewhere overseas. This article examines the relationships between the different research …

Contemporary polemics and scholarship tend to portray post-1980 research universities as
exotic, abnormal, or 'new'because they embrace private intellectual property. This paper …