Texas Crude: Science, Ideology and Oil, 1925-1975

康斯坦特教授是建立在人类学的最新工作， 他研究了科学如何从字面上理解 社会如何改变科学 的核心 这项研究是一个历史性的帐户之间的相互作用， 发展石油工程科学和石油行业， 德克萨斯 他试图捕捉谈判的过程， 他们通过重新谈判， “社会现实”（他们彼此之间以及与其他人之间的关系） 得克萨斯州的权力结构）和“物理现实”（的性质 地下石油储量）。 他是通过学习来做到这一点的 详细讲述了德州石油商如何求助于科学家 确定开采石油财富的最佳方式，科学家如何 调整他们的工作，以满足石油工人的需要，以及如何两者都 合作在得克萨斯州建立监管体系， 石油工业。根据这一详细的案例研究，教授 Constant希望开发一个通用的模型， 科学、技术和社会。 因此，这项研究承诺的见解 不仅是德克萨斯州石油工业的历史，而且是真实的 对整个科学、技术研究领域的贡献 和社会

Professor Constant is building on recent work in anthropology and philosophy of science for his study of how science literally transforms society and how society transforms science. The core of this study is an historical account of the interaction between developing petroleum engineering science and the oil fraternity in Texas. He is trying to capture the processes of negotiation and renegotiation by which they jointly produced and reconstructed "social reality" (their relationship to each other and to the rest of the Texas power structure) and "physical reality" (the nature of the subsurface petroleum reserves). He is doing this by studying in detail the ways that Texas oil men turned to scientists to help determine the best way to exploit oil riches, how scientists adjusted their work to meet the needs of the oil men, and how both cooperated to establish a regulatory system in Texas to manage the oil industry. On the basis of this detailed case study, Professor Constant hopes to develop a general model of the interactions of science, technology and society. This study thus promises insights not only into the history of oil industry in Texas, but a real contribution to the entire field of studies in science, technology and society.