Karine Chemla is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University Paris Diderot and University Paris Panthéon Sorbonne.
Evelyn Fox Keller is Professor Emerita of the History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Karine Chemla is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, University Paris Diderot and University Paris Panthéon Sorbonne.
Evelyn Fox Keller is Professor Emerita of the History and Philosophy of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Glass Ceilings and Sticky Floors: Drawing New Ontologies
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Published:March 2017
How did the “glass ceiling” and related characteristics of female labor force experience become recognized as a proper object for social scientific study? Exploring interactions between the contexts of discovery and justification reveals how this phenomenon was recognized and established by combining different forms of expertise and experience both from within and from outside the social scientific fields. The resulting object of study might well be described as embedding a “civil” or “community ontology,” for the intersections of facts and values in these different knowledge communities were equally important in defining the content of that object of research.
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