Managing laboratory work through skepticism: Processes of evaluation and control
Managing laboratory work through skepticism: Processes of evaluation and control
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DOI：
10.2307/3088887
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发表时间：
2001-06-01
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
Owen-Smith, J
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作者：
Owen-Smith, J
实验室民族志是知识经济的商店纤维研究。在一个多学科神经科学实验室进行的为期两个月的实地工作的观察数据表明，科学怀疑主义。长期以来被理解为一种评价机制，也具有社会控制和监测功能。作者运用组织理论、社会心理学、科学研究和科学社会学的见解，证明怀疑主义在实验室互动的微观层面上是社会组织的。该组织使怀疑主义成为在物理上分散的多学科环境中进行的不确定的科学工作所引起的控制、协调和评估问题的解决方案。怀疑主义在实验室互动中扮演的不同角色与许多职业环境中的工作检查产生了共鸣，同时提供了对可能解释知识密集型工作场所中奖励和地位模式的机制的直接洞察。
Laboratory ethnographies are the shop-fiber studies of the knowledge economy. Observational data from II months of field work in a multidisciplinary neuroscience lab suggest that scientific skepticism. long understood as an evaluative mechanism, also serves social control and monitoring functions. The author applies insights from organization theory, social psychology, science studies, and the sociology of science to demonstrate that skepticism is socially organized at the microlevel of laboratory interactions. This organization makes skepticism a solution to the problems of control, coordination, and evaluation raised by uncertain scientific work conducted in a physically dispersed multidisciplinary setting. The diverse roles skepticism plays in laboratory interactions resonate with examinations of work in a number of occupational settings while providing direct insight into mechanisms that may account for the patterning of rewards and status across knowledge-intensive workplaces.