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The New Sociology ("The new sociology" - tried to use methods…

- - - - all forms of belief and behavior should be approached using the same kind of explanation.
      - We should not give different kinds of explanations for beliefs that we think are true and those that we believe are false
      - "Our own assessment of an idea should have no effect on how we explain its history and social role"
      - APPLYING SCIENCE: the principle says us that scientific beliefs are products of the same general kinds of forces as other kinds of beliefs
      - All people, live in communities that have socially established local norms for regulating belief. Norms that support claims, disagreement and are rather subtle habits than explicit rules
      - :checkered_flag: THAT IS WHY: we must recognize that all kind of factors that explain scientists believe that genes are made of DNA. All those factors are the same kind of factors that affect other communities beliefs (tribal community e.g.)
      - IMPORTANT: we should not give the real world (that science investigate), a special role in the explanation of (scientific) belief
    - - Mathematics + middle class in England = :<3: (MacKenzie, 1981)
      - Many reference Kuhn, seeking to tie science to its broader political context (Foucault - övervakning och straff)
      - Connected to relativism (here concerned of rationality, evidence and justification): there is no single set of standards entitled to govern the justification and beliefs
    - - If all beliefs are to be explained in terms of the same kinds of social factors, and no set of local norms can be judged "really" superior from an external standpoint, then what about the theories found in sociology of science?
      - "The sociologist accepted that their own theories were only true of their own ideas"