He has been Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Human Sciences and Director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) at Brunel University. He holds the Chair of Sociology and Marketing and is Professor of Marketing at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Green College. He is an important contributor in the fields of Science Studies, sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) and the Science and technology studies (STS) (especially on the topic of sociology of machines). Stephen Woolgar is a recipient of the Bernal Prize in 2008 awarded annually by the Society for Social Studies of Science to an individual judged to have made a distinguished contribution to the field.
Main works
with Bruno Latour, Laboratory Life: the construction of scientific facts, Princeton, 1986 (1979).
Science: the Very Idea, Routledge, 1988.
(ed.), Knowledge and Reflexivity edited, Sage, 1988.
with Steve Fuller and M. de Mey (eds), The Cognitive Turn: sociological and psychological perspectives on science, Kluwer, 1989.
with Michael Lynch (eds), Representation in Scientific Practice, MIT, 1990.
with K. Grint, The Machine at Work: technology, organisation and work, Polity/Blackwell, 1997.
Virtual Society? technology, cyberbole, reality, Oxford University Press, 2002.
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