ABSTRACT
In his 1995 Annual Review of Sociology essay, Steven Shapin identified the central conceptual problem in the sociology of scientific knowledge as “how to interpret the relationship between the local settings in which scientific knowledge is produced and the unique efficiency with which such knowledge seems to travel” (1995: 290). Coming close on the heels of important edited volumes by Pickering (1992) and Clarke and Fujimura (1992) and marking the cultural turn in science and technology studies (STS), Shapin’s essay was widely cited and helped solidify the field’s contemporary focus on the cultural practices that first generate and then circulate scientific knowledge. The essay’s title “Here and Everywhere” signified the field’s focal attention to these dual processes.
