Faculty contribute essays to new book
Three Harvard faculty members — Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and professor of sociology and of African and African American studies; Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies and professor of environmental science and public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government; and Rebecca Lemov, assistant professor of the history of science — have contributed essays to a new book, “Social Knowledge in the Making,” to be published Oct. 14 by the University of Chicago Press. The book, co-edited by Lamont, includes more than a dozen essays on the social sciences, and represents the first comprehensive effort to examine the day-to-day activities involved in the creation of social-scientific and related forms of knowledge about the social world. Essays address a range of subjects, from the changing practices of historical research to anthropological data collection, as well as subjects beyond academia, like global banks, survey...