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Sociology of scientific knowledge

a staged research design that shows the interpretive flexibility of experimental results, then traces the social mechanisms that close a scientific controversy.

In sociology of scientific knowledge, empirical programme of relativism refers to a staged research design that shows the interpretive flexibility of experimental results, then traces the social mechanisms that close a scientific controversy. This meaning comes from Collins (1981) in Social Studies of Science.[1]

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  1. Collins, H. M. (1981). Stages in the Empirical Programme of Relativism. Social Studies of Science, 11(1), 3-10. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631278101100101

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