Long overdue . . . the first sober attempt to locate the recent science studies literature in the sociology of knowledge tradition. The book should prove accessible to both teachers and students.

- Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, author of The Intellectual,

One of the most lucid and knowledgeable expositions of postmodernism and its paradoxes as one can find in the literature.

- Stephan Fuchs, University of Virginia,

a serious and important contribution to sociological theory.

- Kelly Moore, Columbia University, Contemporary Sociology