Constructing Expertise: In a Third Wave of Science Studies?

Part of a symposium of comments on a discussion paper by H. M. Collins and Robert Evans (2002), "The Third Wave of Science Studies: Studies of Expertise and Experience." Collins and Evans's treatment of core-sets as a point of entry is critiqued. This is not to say internalist sociology of science is itself invalid, but, rather, that a broader sociology vis-a-vis productive arrangements and path dependency would be more fruitful. Such an approach would account for how esoteric sciences take shape in the first place, and how protected spaces for these sciences are nurtured. 41 References.