The Molecular Biological Bandwagon in Cancer Research: Where Social Worlds Meet

Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation

“…art [Heinich 1997]; film [Baumann 2007], popular music [Regev & Seroussi 2004], popular culture [Illouz 2003], and baseball [Allen & Parsons 2006]); 2) Economic sociologists analyze the workings of markets for the production of value (e.g., Zuckerman 1999Zuckerman , 2004, as well as the commodification process by which objects become amenable to valuation and trade through the market (e.g., Carruthers & Stinchcombe 1999;Zelizer 1979Zelizer , 1994; 3) Sociologists of knowledge and science consider the growth and decline of intellectual reputations (e.g. Latour 1988;Collins 1998;Gross 2008;Lamont 1987), bandwagon effects in scientific fields (Fujimura 1988), as well as the institutionalization of academic fields; 4) Students of inequality research the distribution of status and social honor (Abbott 1981;Collins 2004;Ridgeway 2006;Sauder 2005, Zhou 2005) and competing definitions of worth across social groups (Lamont 1992;; 5) Social psychologists study how social identity is given value and meaning through comparison (Ashmore et al (2004) for a review); 6) Sociologists of organizations have studied how novelty (e.g., in governance) appears and how it generalizes (Campbell 1997); and how measuring rods and entities get selected out, who survives, and how order stabilizes. They also study declines in popularity (e.g.…”

Beyond the Provisional Nature: Towards a Radial Concept of Practice

“…These approaches -in the plural form -have become a sort of "bandwagon" (Fujimura, 1988;Corradi et al, 2010).…”

Between Research and Practice: Experts on Implementing Sustainable Construction

“…However, other contemporary theorists alternatively posit that boundary work: functions as the interface "between communities with different views of what constitutes reliable or useful knowledge" [20]; is focused on linking knowledge practices with action [21]; occurs within social worlds not bounded by geography, but rather by the effective limits of communication [22][23][24][25]; and lastly operates in concert with "boundary objects" that sit between and facilitate "multiple translations" of meaning across different social worlds [24]. Fujimura's meta-concept of "standardized packages" [26,27] also serves as an "interface between multiple social worlds [28], but effectively scales up the concept of "boundary object" and emphasizes its links to activities of "fact and skill" stabilization rather than destabilization [14,29]. Fujimura's work in particular provided an accessible tool to conceptualize how sustainable construction and the expertise affiliated with it fit into a broader socio-technical landscape of built environment discourse.…”