Essential Tensions: Paradoxes of Identity, Risk, and Control in Science.
In: Conference Papers - American Sociological Association; 2004 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, p1-31, 32p, 2 Graphs; (2004-08-14) S. 1-32
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Scientific collaboration has been the subject of social research for about 40 years, with interest rising sharply in recent years as part of the ?organizational turn? in science studies [e.g., Pelz and Andrews, 1966; Andrews, 1979; Traweek, 1986; Owen-Smith, 2001; Shrum, 2001]. A line of inquiry that initially focused on properties of groups, organizations, and work life that influenced performance has branched into a diversity of studies concerned with trust, skepticism, control, gender, cultural difference, articulation work, epistemic cultures, and more. Group characteristics and processes influence their work, life course, and performance in ways that are only now coming into focus. This paper contributes to that body of work, using themes of identity, control, risk, and paradox in face-to-face research groups, an intense and enduring work arrangement that produces knowledge, knowledge workers, and ensembles of research technologies. This paper is concerned with research groups, solidary forms of social organization whose members share work space, materials, technologies, objectives, hypotheses, and, to a significant degree, a professional fate. Yet underlying the solidarity and commonality are sharp divides that separate the interests of lab heads from those of members, that bring competition alongside cooperation within and between groups, that give rise to distinctions between those with a shared identity, and that set democratic or participative practices against autocratic ones. Such tensions and paradoxes are not pathologies, but are instead the inherent and enduring issues that confront every research group, and the life course of the group is shaped by the way it deals with paradox. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Essential Tensions: Paradoxes of Identity, Risk, and Control in Science.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Hackett, Edward J. |
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Quelle: | Conference Papers - American Sociological Association; 2004 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, p1-31, 32p, 2 Graphs; (2004-08-14) S. 1-32 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2004 |
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DOI: | asa_proceeding_34984.PDF |
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