Back to the laboratory as a knowledge production space

In the 70’s and 80’s, social science researchers studied scientific knowledge production processes, working inside laboratories to get a close-up view of these. However, instead of focusing on knowledge itself, Latour and Woolgar (1979) illustrated everyday life in the laboratory. Instead of concentrating on the arguments being exchanged and the social and cognitive motivations of the researchers as they defended their viewpoints, Latour's ethnographic approach shifted attention to acts, mate..