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Job Title: Innogen Associate Tel: +44 (0) 1392 263279 Fax: +44 (0) 1392 263305 Email: S.B.Barnes@exeter.ac.uk Building: SHiPSS, Exeter University, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ Room Number:
Books
2000 Understanding Agency: Social Theory and Responsible Action. Sage, London and Thousand Oaks C.A.
1996 [with D. Bloor and J. Henry], Scientific Knowledge: a Sociological Analysis, Athlone Press London, and Chicago University Press.
1995 The Elements of Social Theory, UCL Press, London, and Princeton University Press, New Jersey.
1988 The Nature of Power, Polity Press, Cambridge.
1985 About Science Basil Blackwell, Oxford.
1982 Thomas Kuhn and Social Science, MacMillan, London, and Columbia Univ. Press, New York.
1977 Interests and the Growth of Knowledge, Routledge, London.
1974 Scientific Knowledge and Sociological Theory, Routledge, London.
Edited books
1993 Mocny Program Socjologii Wiedzy ''The Strong Programme in Sociology of Knowledge' (collected papers with introduction by B. Barnes and D. Bloor : translated E. Mokmycki) Warsaw.
1982 jointly edited with D. Edge, Science in Context Open Univ. Press, Milton Keynes, and MIT Press, Boston.
1979 jointly edited with S. Shapin, Natural Order Sage, London, and Beverly Hills.
1972 Sociology of Science Penguin, London.
Forthcoming Papers
2003 'Between the real and the reified'. In S. Loyal and S. Quilley eds The Sage Companion to the Work of Norbert Elias London: Sage.
2003 'Comment on Sokal and Bricmont'. in Carrier and Roggendorf, q. v.
2003 'On social constructivist accounts of the natural sciences'. In Carrier and Roggendorf eds World and Knowledge. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Single-authored papers
2002 'Genes, agents, and the institution of responsible action', in New Genetics and Society, vol.21, no.3. pp. 291-302.
2002 'Thomas Kuhn and the problem of social order in science' pp. 122-41 in T. Nickles (ed) Thomas Kuhn, Cambridge University Press.
2002 'Searle on social reality: process is prior to product' pp.247-58 in G. Grewendorf and G. Meggle (eds.) Speech, Acts, Mind and Social Reality. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
2002 'The public evaluation of science and technology', pp. 19-36 in J. A. Bryant et al. (eds) Bioethics for Scientists, John Wiley.
2001 'Tolerance as a primary virtue' in D. Castiglioni and C. MacKinnon (eds) Res Publica vol. 7, no. 3 pp231-45.
2001 'The macro-micro problem and the problem of structure and agency' pp. 339-52 in Ritzer, G. and Smart, B. (eds) Handbook of Social Theory, Sage, Thousand Oaks C.A.
2001 'Practice as collective action' pp 17-28 in E. Schatzski et al (eds) The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory, Routledge.
2001 'On "The Construction of Social Reality"' in La Revue Internationale de Philosophie, vol.55, no.2, pp. 263-68.
1999 'Science studies and the empirical understanding of science' Science, Technology and Human Values. [Bernal Prize Address].
1999 'Biotechnology as expertise' in O'Mahoney et al (eds) The Politics of Biotechnology , MacMillan.
1994 'Cultural change: the thought-styles of Mannheim and Kuhn', Common Knowledge, vol.2, no.2, pp.45ff.
1993 'Power', in R. Bellamy ed., Theories and Concepts of Politics, Manchester, Manchester University Press pp. 197-210.
1992 'How to do the Sociology of Knowledge', Danish Yearbook of Philosophy vol.28, no.4, pp.7-23.
1992 'Status groups and collective action', Sociology, vol.26, no.2, pp.259-70.
1992 'Realism relativism and finitism', in Raven and Thyssen eds., Cognitive Relativism and Society. New Jersey, Transaction Books.
1992 'On the size and definition of science', in Handbook of the Law of Science, vol. 1, The University within the Research System Baden Baden, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.
1991 'How not to do the sociology of knowledge', Annals of Scholarship vol.8, no.3, pp.321 35.
1990 'Macro-economics and infant behaviour: a sociological treatment of the free-rider problem', Sociological Review, vol.38, no.2, pp.272-92.
1989 'Ostensive learning and self-referring knowledge' in A. Gellatly et.al. (eds.), Cognition and Social Worlds. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
1987 'Concept application as social activity', Critica vol. 19, no.56, pp. 19-46.
1986 'On authority and its relationship to power' in J. Law (ed.),Power. Action and Belief.. Sociological Review Monograph 34.
1985 'T.S. Kuhn' in Q. Skinner (ed.), The Return of Grand Theory in the Human Science Cambridge Univ. Press.
1984 'The conventional component in knowledge and cognition', in N. Stehr and V. Meja (eds), Society and Knowledge Transaction Books. (This article is an improved and developed account of material originally published in German in 1981. Two other slightly different versions of this material were also published.)
1984 'Problems of intelligibility and paradigm instances', in J. Brown (ed.), Scientific Rationality: the Sociological Turn Reidel, pp. 113-25
1983 'Social life as bootstrapped induction', Sociology , vol. 17 no.4,
1982 'On the implications of a body of knowledge', in Knowledge: Creation, Diffusion and Innovation vol.4,no.l, pp.95-110.
1982 'On the extensions of concepts and the growth of knowledge', Sociological Review, vol.30, no. 1, pp.23-44.
1981 'On the conventional character of knowledge and cognition', Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 11, no.3, pp.303-33.
1981 'On the 'hows' and 'whys' of cultural change', Social Studies of Science, vol. 11, no.4, pp.481-98.
1980 'On the causal explanation of scientific judgement', Social Science Information, vol. 19, no.4/5, pp.685-95.
1976 'Natural rationality: a neglected concept in the social sciences', Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol.6, no.2, pp. 115-26.
1973 'The comparison of belief systems: anomaly versus falsehood', in Horton & Finnegan (eds.), Modes of Thought Faber, London.
1972 'Sociological explanation and natural science', European Journal of Sociology, vol. 13, no.3, pp.373-93.
1972 'On the reception of scientific beliefs', in Barnes (ed.) Sociology of Science Penguin, London.
1971 'Making-out in industrial research', Science Studies. vol. 1, no.2, pp. 157-75.
1969 'Paradigms: scientific and social', Man vol.4, pp.94-102.
Jointly-authored papers
2001 '"Agency" as a red herring in social theory', [second author to Steve Loyal] in Philosophy of the Social Sciences vol. 31 no.4 pp.507-24.
1982 with D. Bloor, 'Relativism, rationalism and the sociology of knowledge', in M. Hollis and S. Lukes (eds.), Rationality and Relativism Blackwell, Oxford, pp.21-47.
1979 with D. MacKenzie, 'Scientific judgement in the Biometry-Mendelism controversy', in Barnes and Shapin (eds.), Natural Order Sage, pp. 191-210.
1979 with S. Shapin, 'Social Darwinism', in Barnes and Shapin (eds.), Natural Order Sage, pp. 125-42.
1979 with D. MacKenzie, 'On the role of interests in scientific change', in R. Wallis (ed.), On the Margins of Science. Sociological Review Monoprgph 27,pp.49-66.
1977 with S. Shapin, "Science, nature and control: interpreting Mechanics' Institutes", Social Studies of Science, vol.7, no. 1, pp.31-74.
1977 with S. Shapin 'Head and hand: rhetorical resources in British pedagogical writing, 1770-1850', Oxford Review of Education vol.2, no.3, pp. 231-54.
1976 with J. Law, 'Whatever should be done with indexical expressions?', Theory and Society, vol.3, no.2, pp.223-237.
1976 with J. Law, 'Areas of ignorance in normal science', Sociological Review, vol.24, no. 1, pp. 115-24.
1975 with D. MacKenzie, 'Biometriker versus Mendelianer. Eine Kontroverse und ffire Erklarung', Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie u. Sozialpsychologie, special issue 18, pp. 165-96.
1970 with R.G.A. Dolby, 'The scientific ethos: a deviant viewpoint', European Journal of Sociology, vol. 11, no. 1, pp.3-25. Selected review articles and short papers
2000 'What is this thing called philosophy of science?' [essay review] in Metascience, vol. 9, no. 2, pp193-8.
1998 'Seeking certainty in an unreliable world' [review] in Nature vol. 396, no. 6706, pp39- 40.
1998 'Oversimplification and the desire for truth' in Social Studies of Science vol.28, no.4, pp636-40.
1992 'More theory than practice' (essay review) Symposium on P. Mirowski, More Heat than Light. Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol.22, no. 1, pp. 122-2 1.
1990 'Sociological theories of scientific knowledge', in Olby et al. (eds), Companion to the History of Modern Science, London, Routledge
1989 'History of science and sociology of knowledge', in Ito and Murikami (eds), History of Science Vol.2. Tokyo, Baifukan, (published in Japanese).
1987 'Power listens to Science' (essay review) Social Studies of Science. vol. 17, no.3, pp.555 564.
1985 'Ethnomethodology as Science', (essay review) Social Studies of Science, vol. 15, no.4, pp.751 762.
1985 "Mainly on 'mechanism': a reply to Layder", Sociology vol.18,no.3, pp.406-410.
1984 'Networks of power', (essay review) Social Studies of Science, vol. 14, no.2, pp.309- vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 166 72.
1979 'Vicissitudes of belief', (essay review) Social Studies of Science, vol.9, no.2, pp.247-63.
1977 with S. Shapin, 'Where is the edge of objectivity?', (essay review) British Journal Hist. Sci., vol. 10, no. 1, pp.61-66.
1970 with M.C.R. Symons, 'Radiation damage in persulphate crystals', Journal Chem. Soc. A, pp.2000-2.
1966 with M.C.R. Symons, 'Electron spin resonance spectra of irradiated potassium persulphate', J. Chem. Soc. A. pp.66 70.
He has a longstanding interest in the fundamental problems of the social sciences, particularly in collective action problems, in status groups as generators of [exclusionary] collective action, and in self-referring knowledge as constitutive of social order and systems of power. Since the mid-1990s he has been increasingly focusing his work upon the new human biotechnologies and their social and cultural significance. He is the author of seven books, five edited or jointly authored books, and over fifty major papers. His works have appeared in translation in most European languages, and in Chinese and Japanese. In 1998 he accepted the J.B Bernal Prize of the Society for Social Studies of Science for his career achievement in that field.
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