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University of Edinburgh
David Bloor taught Science Studies at the University of Edinburgh, he had written dozens of pieces based around the debates of Kuhn and Popper. He created "The Strong Programme" with fellow professors of Edinburgh University. This piece had insisted that science be considered to provisions of sociological analysis.
Li, Zheng-Feng,. “Go Strong or Go Home: An Interview with David Bloor.” East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, vol. 4, no. 3, 1 Sept. 2010, pp. 419–432 -
The Strong Programme in The Sociology of Knowledge
This piece was written with four principles to allow the analysis of sciences under one standardization. The causality principles is based on incentives for research. This creates a competitive field however it lead's to lack of cooperation as differing perspectives compete for rewards all while disregarding there peers.
Bloor, David. "The Strong Programme in Sociology of Knowledge." Philosophy of Science: Yuri Balashov and Alexander Rosenberg. Florence, KY: Routledge, 2001. 438- 458. Print. -
The Strong Programme in The Sociology of Knowledge
Impartiality is another principle from David Bloor that's entirely set to describe the equality between failure and succession of each idea. This is followed by the symmetrical concept in which the cause are the same formulation regardless of whether a belief proves itself true or not. This idea would also need to be reflexive within sociology as a whole. This had been the fundamental basis of David Bloor's work, he aimed to accept a common interaction and development across all sciences. -
The Strong Programme in Sociology versus pre-existing ideologies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C10Q0mEbhUI
The video explains his idea that theories should be revised regardless of success/failure. Sociology accomplishes this be providing sort of impartiality. It had conflicting views such as symmetry considering certain clauses could have true beliefs. Nonetheless Bloor's work created an accurate framework for various sciences that forces sociology to follow their own principles they created for science.
