ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the progress through sociology of science that has given to people increasingly relativistic, or even anti-science, that takes on the enterprise as a whole. It addresses that sociology of science can be thought of as an antidote to the type of theorizing. Sociology of science helped merge the lines of radical critique and nascent feminist critique. Higher Superstition is probably at its most provocative with respect to its attack on the feminist critique. Sociology of science has drawn from the type of work in epistemology that now goes under the rubric:socialized epistemology" or even "naturalized epistemology". It is interesting to note that any alembicated account of sociology of science must at least minimally make reference to social features of cognitive processes and their relationship to scientific theorizing. The chapter examines the effect that sociology of science has had on science studies and shows its intersections with the various feminist theories.
