The Social Construction of Validity in Estimates of US Crude Oil Reserves

Bowden, Gary

doi:10.1177/030631285015002001

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“…They compel acceptance, at least provisional acceptance, and the most well-designed and well-implemented research programs will have no impact if they are not understood to have produced accurate and useful information (see Bowden, 1985). However, the definitions of validity used by various scientists, audiences, clients, and subjects differ; while this is not an unusual phenomenon in science, it is pervasive in applied social science research.…”

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Critical Sociology of Science and Scientific Validity

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Loughlin

1987

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486Critical sociology of science, in conjunction with an emancipatory epistemology, focuses attention on the social and especially value aspects of validity and objectivity. This is the foundation for our arguments concerning the relevance of the sociology of science for explaining and understanding science, and for fashioning science policy. After outlining the basic features of critical sociology of science and emancipatory epistemology, we explore their implications for the problem of validity in applied social science research. Drawing on research on the use of illegal drugs, we argue that Campbell's suggestions regarding how to define research problems and treat qualitative methods, as well as other aspects of his "sociology of scientific validity, " may improve validity in the sense of achieving consensus and vigor within specialties. More generally, however, his program may inhibit progress in developing accurate, objective knowledge of science and society. Formal policy research is inevitably ideological; validity is enhanced by broadening the basis of research support, adopting the perspectives of a variety of communities, and resisting the temptation to enthrone particular methods or work styles.This article is at once a response and an alternative to Donald T. Campbell's (1985) program for a &dquo;sociology of scientific validity&dquo; and his proposals for optimizing validity in applied social science research.

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Section: Validity and Applied Social Science Researchmentioning

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Critical Sociology of Science and Scientific Validity

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Loughlin

1987

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“…Hubbert who predicted that US production would peak in 1970, closely matching actual peak production in 1971 (Bowden, 1985). In 1974 he also suggested that global oil production would peak in 1995 which proved to be inaccurate (Demming, 2003).…”

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“…Peak oil is the point at which the global output of conventional oil reaches its maximum level and subsequently flow rates decrease (Bowden, 1985). This is when roughly half the world supply of oil has been produced and subsequent output falls.…”

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The end of Peak Oil? Why this topic is still relevant despite recent denials

Chapman

2014

Energy Policy

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“…For Gavin Bridge, resources are really cultural categories "into which societies place those components of the non-human world that are considered useful or valuable in some way" (Bridge 2009(Bridge :1219. Scholars continue to highlight aspects of this argument, that resources and resource estimations are cultural and social before they are natural and physical (Bowden 1985;Tsing 2000;Hughes 2017;Kneas 2017). In the context of broader theories and debates about materiality, scholars have also examined the diverse properties and agencies of specific natural resources (Bennett 2010;Kaup 2008).…”

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From Dearth to El Dorado: Andean Nature, Plate Tectonics, and the Ontologies of Ecuadorian Resource Wealth

Kneas

2018

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Since the early 1990s, the Ecuadorian government has pledged to convert the nation into a "mining country" of global standing. Contemporary claims of mineral wealth, however, stand in stark contrast to previous assessments. Indeed, through much of the 20 th century, geologists described Ecuador as a country of mineral dearth. Exploring the process through which Ecuador seemingly transitioned from a nation of resource scarcity to one of mineral plenty, I demonstrate how assessments of Ecuador's resource potential relate to ideas of Andean nature. Promoters of resource abundance have emphasized Andean uniformity and equivalence-the notion that Ecuador's mineral wealth is inevitable by virtue of the resource richness of its Andean neighbors. Geologists who have questioned Ecuador's mineral content, on the other hand, have emphasized Andean heterogeneity. In the recent promotion of Ecuador's resource potential, notions of Andean uniformity have been bolstered by models of subsoil copper that emerged in the in 1970s in the context of plate-tectonic theory. In highlighting the linkage between ideas of Andean nature and appraisals of Ecuadorian resource potential since the late 19 th century, I outline the dialectics between nature and natural resources that underpin processes of resource becoming.

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The Social Construction of Validity in Estimates of US Crude Oil Reserves

Cited by 36 publications

References 11 publications

Critical Sociology of Science and Scientific Validity

Critical Sociology of Science and Scientific Validity

The end of Peak Oil? Why this topic is still relevant despite recent denials

From Dearth to El Dorado: Andean Nature, Plate Tectonics, and the Ontologies of Ecuadorian Resource Wealth

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