Scientific community

The scientific community consists of the total body of scientists, its relationships and interactions. It is normally divided into "sub-communities" each working on a particular field within science (for example there is a robotics community within the field of computer science).

References

Sociologies of science

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• Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory life: the social construction of scientific facts (Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, 1979).
• Sharon Traweek, Beamtimes and lifetimes: the world of high energy physicists (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988).
• Steven Shapin and Simon Schaffer, Leviathan and the air-pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the experimental life (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985).

History and philosopy of science

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• Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962).