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Science as an Institution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Frank E. Hartung
Frank E. Hartung*
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Wayne University
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1. Introduction. The purpose of this paper is to present an initial sociological analysis of science as an institution. This kind of analysis has long been made of other aspects of culture: of the family, the state, religion, economic enterprise and the like. An institution, as the term is used here, is simply

… a definite and established phase of the public mind … often seeming, on account of its permanence and the visible customs and symbols in which it is clothed, to have a somewhat distinct and independent existence. (6, p. 313)

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Philosophy of Science , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 1951 , pp. 35 - 54
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1951

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