Below is a reading list for this year’s Summer School, with specific readings associated with each session.
For legal reasons the STS Summer School cannot post copies of these readings online. Access instructions will be provided by the organizers.
General Readings
M. Callon. Some elements of a sociology of translation: domestication of the scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay. The sociological review 32, no. 1_suppl (1984): 196-233.
L. Winner. Do Artifacts Have Politics? In The Whale and the Reactor, pp. 19-39. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
S. Jasanoff. In a Constitutional Moment: Science and Social Order at the Millennium. Routledge, 2012, 261–89.
S. Jasanoff. The Discontents of Truth and Trust in 21st Century America. Daedalus 151, 4 (2022): 25–42.
STS Analytic Lexicon (Science, Power, and Politics)
H. Simmet, S. Jasanoff, and B. Hurlbut. Core STS Concepts Crib Sheet.
Interpretive STS
M. Weber. “Objectivity” in social science and social policy.” The methodology of the social sciences (1949): 102-112.
L. Fleck. Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact. University of Chicago Press, 1981. 38-51, 105-109.
W. Cronon. A Place for Stories: Nature, History, and Narrative. The Journal of American History 78, 4 (1992): 1347-1376.
J.D. Moses, J. B Hurlbut, S. Jasanoff, and K. Saha. Introducing Perspectives from the Global Observatory for Genome Editing. The CRISPR Journal, 23 May 2025.
Suggestions
T. Pinch. Foreword. In H.S. Rogers et al. (eds.) The Routledge handbook of art, science, and technology, studies, pp. xxi-xxv. London and New York, NY: Routledge, 2021.
Comparative STS
S. Jasanoff, Why Compare? In: S. Jasanoff Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
S. Jasanoff and I. Metzler. “Borderlands of Life: IVF Embryos and the Law in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany.” Science, Technology & Human Values, 45(6), 1001-1037.
H. Simmet, A Fractured Consensus? Comparative Problematization of Climate Science in the Energy Transition. In: D. Barben, A. Bauer, and E. Aarden (Eds.) Handbook on Knowledge Politics, Edward Elgar, forthcoming.
Suggestions
S. Jasanoff, Judgment under Siege: The Three-Body Problem of Expert Legitimacy. In P. Weingart and S. Maasen (eds.) Democratization of Expertise? Exploring Novel Forms of Scientific Advice in Political Decision-Making, Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, pp. 209-224. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2005.
Learning Session: Abstracts and Abstraction
M. Valverde. “How the Academy Negatively Affects Writing Practice.” Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 76, no. RS (2025): RS. https://doi.org/10.53386/nilq.v76iRS.1195.
1-2 sample abstracts, circulated day of.
