Pour une histoire sociale et culturelle des sciences. Nouvelles définitions, nouveaux objets, nouvelles pratiques

Toward Social and Cultural History of Science New Definitions, New Goals, New Practices. The article tries to recapture what the main trends have been in the Social Studies of Knowledge field since the early 1970s in Europe, and to consider some of their historiographical effects. It claims that the whole domain the history of science is being recomposed at the moment, particularly thanks to SSK approaches, that new objects of enquiry, new legitimate questions and new definitions for what is pertinent for the historian are being proposed. The article starts by presenting the main intellectual moments which the Social Studies of Knowledge field passed through between 1970 and the late 1980s. It then proposes some of the most important claims which are currently advocated by proponents of that programme. It finally suggests some of the new ways of practicing the history the sciences which have emerged from it in the last decade.Pestre Dominique. Pour une histoire sociale et culturelle des sciences. Nouvelles définitions, nouveaux objets, nouvelles pratiques. In: Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 50ᵉ année, N. 3, 1995. pp. 487-522