Bringing Pierre Bourdieu to Science and Technology Studies

For many years, the most high profile work in science and technology studies (STS) did not theorize the place of power in the scientific field. Scholars were not inclined to explore the extent to which the social organization of science affects who the winners and losers are in technoscientific struggles. This began to change in the 1990s and recent years have seen a wide array of scholarship which explicitly or implicitly treats the scientific...