Barry Barnes

S. Barry Barnes is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter. Barnes worked at the 'Science Studies Unit' at the University of Edinburgh with David Bloor in the 1980s and early 1990s, where they developed the strong programme in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge.

Main works

* "Interests and the growth of knowledge", London ; Boston : Routledge and K. Paul, 1977.
* with Steven Shapin (ed.), "Natural order : historical studies of scientific culture", Beverly Hills, Calif ; London : Sage Publications, 1979.
* with David Edge (ed.), "Science in context : readings in the sociology of science", Milton Keynes : Open University Press, 1982.
* "About science", Oxford : Basil Blackwell, 1985.
* "The Nature of power", Cambridge : Polity, 1988.
* "Grays Thurrock district : a pictorial history", Chichester : Phillimore, 1988 ; 1991.
* "The Elements of social theory", London : UCL Press, 1995.
* with David Bloor & John Henry, "Scientific knowledge : a sociological analysis", Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Bibliography

* M. Mazzotti (ed.), "Knowledge as Social Order. Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes". Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008.

External links

* [http://www.huss.ex.ac.uk/sociology/staff/barnes/index.php Official page]