Steve Woolgar

Professor Emeritus

Publications

2022

Steve Woolgar (2022)

Obituary: Bruno Latour (1947-2022) Nature, Vol. 611, p. 661-661 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03796-0

Tanja Schneider, Jonna Brenninkmeijer, Stephen William Woolgar (2022)

Enacting the consuming brain: An ethnographic study of accountability redistributions in neuromarketing practices Sociological Review, Vol. 70, p. 1025-1043, Article 00380261221092200 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00380261221092200

Stephen William Woolgar (2022)

The Value of Strident Agnosticism: Dorothy Pawluch and the Endurance of Ontological Gerrymandering The American sociologist, Vol. 53, p. 176-187 (Article in journal)

https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12108-021-09524-x

2021

Stephen William Woolgar, Else Vogel, David Moats, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson (2021)

Preface IMPOSTER AS SOCIAL THEORY: Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans, p. XIV-XVI (Chapter in book)

https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1p6hphs.5

Else Vogel, David Moats, Steve Woolgar, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson (2021)

Thinking with imposters: the imposter as analytic The imposter as social theory: thinking with gatecrashers, cheats and charlatans, p. 1-30 (Chapter in book)

Organisation

Technology and Social Change (TEMAT)

So much of our lives depend on technology. The development and use of technology creates possibilities as well as social, ethical and political dilemmas. That’s what we study at Tema T – Technology and Social Change.

Values

Values is an interdisciplinary research program spanning fields such as science and technology studies (STS), economic sociology and anthropology, as well as political science and political economy.

Imposters and Gatecrashers - an international and interdisciplinary conference

Imposturing is not just about deception, mistaken identity or fakery: the appearance of an imposter creates a destabilising disruption of the social situation, which is revealing and which does not easily resolve.