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Cracking the Crystal in STS: Marcelo Fetz Talks with Harry Collins
No full textIn this interview, Harry Collins and Marcelo Fetz discuss Collins’ early work on the importance of tacit knowledge in laboratory research, the revolutionary spirit of early Science and Technology Studies (STS) research, and his concerns about its current intellectual decline which he sees as a result of the popularity of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) approaches and an increasing focus on policy-relevant STS studies. Collins describes how, in the early years of STS, he was part of a group of social scientists, interested in the analysis of scientific knowledge and practices, who immersed themselves in particular research fields, and then used their familiarity with science to develop radical new approaches to the topic. For him, the “interactional expertise” developed in such encounters is a key research tool––STS’s most effective means of generating compelling new ways of understanding science and technology––which should not be abandoned in favor of alternative approaches. In his following reflection, Marcelo Fetz considers the unifying conditions that were needed to “crack the crystal of science,” and the later problems resulting from the institutionalization of STS
Preserving a Space for Science in an Age of Democracy.
No full textHow should scientific advice be incorporated into the political decision-making process? Harry Collins explores this question in his review of
Harry Collins and the American Art of Dress: 1884-1980
No full textToday when one hears the name Harry Collins very little comes to mind. However, from 1910 to 1950 Harry Collins was a name known across the United States. To simple housewives, first ladies, and stars of the stage and screen that sported his designs, Harry Collins was synonymous with American fashion. A New York designer, author, and philanthropist, Collins was both prolific and celebrated during his nearly fifty-year career as a “dress artist.” His peers included famous turn-of-the-century designers such as Poiret and Lucile as well as later well-known designers such as Adrian, Hattie Carnegie, and Clarie McCardell. Collins often showed alongside these illustrious stars of the fashion world and was seen as their equal. Not only was Harry Collins a designer for the stage, screen, and shop, however, he was also a creative author, critic, and inventor who sought to bring an art to the dress of the everyday American woman. Unlike many of his peers, Collins reached out to a broader audience publishing pieces in Ladies Home Journal and Modern Priscilla as well as a popular book used in Home Economics courses, The ABC of Dress (1923.) To date, Collins has attracted little scholarly attention. This thesis will explore Collins’s multi-faceted career in order to uncover his important role in creating an American style of dress in the early 1910s and 1920s, his most prolific period of design. Decades before the infamous Dorothy Shaver and New York designers of the 1930s and 1940s sought to establish an American fashion, Collins articulated and promoted an American style intended to surpass and sublimate the Parisian monopoly on fashion. As Collins articulated it, the American style was intrinsically linked with a burgeoning national identity. Collins even supported his country and its soldiers through philanthropic works during both World War I and World War II in the realm of fashion, further cementing the connection between the American style and patriotism. While costume historians have heralded the birth of an American style in post WWII America, the first wave of American critics and designers who sought an American mode of dress in the decades just before and after WWI remain understudied. Establishing Collins’ contribution to the formation of an American way of dress in this earlier period helps to illuminate the beginnings of this important movement in design history. Because Collins uniquely bridged the gap between the worlds of high fashion and that of the everyday American woman, he provides an ideal case study to examine the complex intersection of elite patronage and mass culture that enabled American fashion designers to create a new and unique style. Through careful examination of Collins’ identified dresses and his sketches, as well as study of the rich treasure trove of his patents, marketing materials, and copious writings in magazines, newspapers, and trade journals which expressed his ideals, this thesis will construct a greater understanding of Collins’s significant contribution to an American style of dress in greater context to the fashion world in the twentieth-century
We cannot live by scepticism alone
No full textScientists have been too dogmatic about scientific truth and sociologists have fostered too much scepticism — social scientists must now elect to put science back at the core of society, says Harry Collins
Harry COLLINS (2018), Artifictional Intelligence. Against Humanity’s Surrender to Computers
No full textL’ouvrage du sociologue des sciences et des techniques Harry Collins est une contribution majeure à la sociologie de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) qui montre bien l’intérêt de faire exister une perspective solidement ancrée dans les sciences sociales pour penser ses développements récents. C’est précisément cette perspective qui place le livre au cœur des débats dans ce domaine, car l’auteur procède à une critique interne de la technologie du point de vue des connaissances produites par la..
Action, Expertise, Knowledge. On Works of Harry Collins
No full textW eseju recenzyjnym omawiam książki Harry’ego Collinsa i współautorów, które składają się
na tak zwaną trylogię doświadczenia. Książki stanowią próbę teoretycznego uporządkowania
wniosków z badań etnograficznych prowadzonych w ramach studiów nad nauką i techniką. Esej
zestawia koncepcje Collinsa z propozycjami teoretycznymi Bruno Latoura i wskazuje potencjał
ich zastosowań w obrębie badań jakościowych, szczególnie w ramach problematyki biegłości, doświadczenia i wiedzy ukrytej.The review essay discusses books of Harry Collins and co-authors (“trilogy of expertise”). The discussed works are
attempts to sort out theoretical outcomes from the ethnographic studies done within Science and Technology Studies. The review
essay collates these books with theoretical proposals of Bruno Latour, and pinpoints the potential of application these have within
general qualitative research, especially in studies of craftsmanship, expertise, and tacit knowledge.The review essay discusses books of Harry Collins and co-authors (“trilogy of expertise”). The discussed works are
attempts to sort out theoretical outcomes from the ethnographic studies done within Science and Technology Studies. The review
essay collates these books with theoretical proposals of Bruno Latour, and pinpoints the potential of application these have within
general qualitative research, especially in studies of craftsmanship, expertise, and tacit knowledge
Cresting a gravitational wave <b>Gravity's Kiss: The Detection of Gravitational Waves</b> <i>Harry Collins</i> MIT Press, 2017. 414 pp.
No full textHarry Collins, a sociologist embedded in the LIGO project, recounts the discovery of a lifetime</jats:p
Harry’s Code. An interview with Harry Collins
Full text linkWhile attending a conference in Budapest in May, I caught up with Harry Collins in Memento Park; an open-air museum filled several dozen statues, busts and plaques from the Communist era. According to the Hungarian architect Ákos Eleőd, who designed it, “the park is about dictatorship. And at the same time, because it can be talked about, described, built, this park is about democracy. After all, only democracy is able to give the opportunity to let us think freely about dictatorship.” In retrospect, it seemed a fitting location for the interview. As many of our readers are no doubt already aware, Collins has for at least ten years been engaged in discussions about social aspects of science and democracy. In efforts to impose what some have described as restrictions on public engagement with expertise, there are those who have labeled his proposals ‘illiberal’ and ‘undemocratic’. Others have viewed them as an attempt to ensure expertise is not lost when engaging the public in decision-making. Ever since his early works on knowledge diffusion in the 1970s, Collins has kept reinventing himself. And with an advanced grant from the European Research Council, he shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon
Da Teoria do campo científico de Pierre Bourdieu a Teoria das expertises de Harry Collins
Full text linkEsse texto busca compreender as dinâmicas do conhecimento científico na sociologia da ciência contemporânea fazendo uma análise sobre a aproximação e o distanciamento da Teoria do Campo Científico de Pierre Bourdieu e da Teoria das Expertises em Harry Collins. Para isso, uma breve história da sociologia e da filosofia da ciência no século XX é proposta no primeiro momento, depois é evidenciado a ruptura epistemológica que o Programa Forte realizou partindo das ideias de Thomas Kuhn. Em seguida, são apresentadas as principais proposições de Pierre Bourdieu e por fim o a discussão sobre os experts na visão de Harry Collin
Boxers Harry Collins and Sid Godfrey shake hands in front of referee Joe Wallis [picture] /
No full textPart of: Arnold Thomas boxing collection.; Title devised by cataloguer from handwritten inscription on reverse.; Inscription: "H. Collins, Joe Wallis (Referee), Sid Godfrey, 1926?"--Handwritten in ink on photograph.; Inscription: "Godfrey, Sid v's Harry Collins, Collins won KO in 10 rounds"--Handwritten in ink on reverse.; Inscription: "S. J. Hood, press photographer, 124 Pitt Street Sydney, Tel. B. 1843"--Stamped on reverse.; Inscription: "Herald Pictorial Library 2/12/40, File Personal, No 33207"--Stamped on reverse.; Condition: Good.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn3645312
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