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Science, Nonscience, and the Cultural Revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

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1. Barber, for example, selects the years 1928 to 1934; John, Barber, “The Establishment of Intellectual Orthodoxy in the USSR, 1928–1934,” Past and Present, no. 83 (1979): 141164 Google Scholar. Fitzpatrick chooses 1928 to 1931; Sheila, Fitzpatrick, ed., Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928–1931 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978 Google Scholar. Bauer, in his study of psychology, opts for January 1930 to July 1936; Bauer, Raymond A., The New Man in Soviet Psychology (Cambridge, Mass.: HarvardUniversity Press, 1959), p. 93 Google Scholar.

2. This term is taken from the title of Timasheff's, Nicholas S. study of the period, The Great Retreat: The Growth and Decline of Communism in Russia (New York: Dutton, 1946 Google Scholar.

3. See Hough, Jerry F., “The Cultural Revolution and Western Understanding of the SovietSystem,” in Fitzpatrick, , ed., Cultural Revolution, pp. 141153 Google Scholar; the two are explicitly linked by Bauerin his, The New Man in Soviet Psychology,

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8. Ibid., pp. 24–90.

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19. Solomon, Soviet Agrarian Debate, p. 182. By “traditional norms” she seems to have in mind the norms of scientific behavior (organized skepticism, communism or communality, universalism, and disinterestedness) identified by Merton; see Merton, Robert K., The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Observations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973 Google Scholar.

20. Solomon, Soviet Agrarian Debate, p. 182. She states that the field's history was “nearly adecade” long, which is surely not a long time when compared with other research areas. Indeed sheseems to admit as much on p. 33 of her book.

21. For some remarks by Thomas S. Kuhn on the application of his work to nonscience, see his “Comment,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 11 (1969): 403–412.

22. See, for example, the writings of Whitley, Richard D., “Cognitive and Social Institutionalisationof Scientific Specialities and Research Areas,” in Whitley, Richard D., ed., Social Processes of Scientific Development (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974), pp. 6975 Google Scholar, idem, “The Sociologyof Scientific Work and the History of Scientific Developments,” in Stuart S. Blume, ed., Perspectives in the Sociology of Science (Chichester, U.K., and New York: Wiley, 1977), pp. 21–50, “Changes inthe Social and Intellectual Organisation of the Sciences: Professionalisation and the ArithmeticIdeal,” in Mendelsohn, Everett, Weingart, Peter and Whitley, Richard, eds., The Social Production of Scientific Knowledge (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1977), pp. 143169 CrossRefGoogle Scholar and “Types of Science, Organisational Strategies and Patterns of Work in Research Laboratories in Different Scientific Fields,” Social Science Information 17, no. 3 (1978): 427–447; also Bohme, Gemot, “The Social Function of Cognitive Structures: A Concept of the Scientific Community within a Theory of Action,” in Knorr, Karin D., Strasser, Hermann, and Zilian, Hans Georg, eds., Determinants and Controls of Scientific Development (Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1975), pp. 205225 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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26. This term is used by Masterman in her discussion of Kuhn's use of the term paradigm; Margaret Masterman, “The Nature of a Paradigm,” in Lakatos and Musgrave, eds., Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge, p. 74.

27. Indeed, in Kuhn's initial writings a community was basically defined as those practitionerswho shared a paradigm, Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions, pp. 176–177.

28. For a discussion of a particular case of the role of nonartists in the visual arts, see Mulkay, Michael and Chaplin, Elizabeth, “Aesthetics and the Artistic Career: A Study of Anomie in Fine ArtPainting,” The Sociological Quarterly 23 no. 1 (1982): 117138.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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30. Ibid., p. 129.

31. Cited in Joravsky, Soviet Marxism, p. 97; italics in original.

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34. See, for example, Barber, Soviet Historians.

35. Lammers, “Mono and Poly-paradigmatic Developments,” p. 142.

36. Solomon, Soviet Agrarian Debate, p. 180.

37. Ibid., p. 179.

38. Ibid., pp. 32–33, 91–110.

39. See the problems experienced by G. A. Studenskii, as described by Solomon, ibid., pp. 172—173.

40. Kuhn, himself, notes that at this time the choice between paradigms is “ultimately personal and subjective,” Structure of Scientific Revolutions, p. 199; for further discussion, see M. Mulkay, “Some Aspects of Cultural Growth in the Natural Sciences,” in Barnes, Barry, comp., Sociology of Science (Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1972), pp. 126141 Google Scholar.

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