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Bibliography: The Sociology of Harry Collins

I call Harry Collins the testers’ sociologist. It’s not that he has studied testers, as such. He’s studied scientists, and his work marvelously relates to ours. His work on the nature of expertise, experimentation, and tacit knowledge has been transformative to me.

Journal Articles

Collins, Harry, et al. “‘Um, Er’: How Meaning Varies between Speech and Its Typed Transcript.” Qualitative Research, Jan. 2019, p. 146879411881661, https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794118816615.
Collins, Harry. “Are Experts Right or Are They Members of Expert Groups?” Social Epistemology, vol. 32, no. 6, Nov. 2018, pp. 351–57, https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2018.1546346.
Evans, Robert, et al. “Groups and Individuals: Conformity and Diversity in the Performance of Gendered Identities.” The British Journal of Sociology, Oct. 2018, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12507.
Harry Collins, F. B. A. “Remembering Bert Dreyfus.” AI & SOCIETY, Feb. 2018, pp. s00146-018-0796–x, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-018-0796-x.
Collins, Harry. “Studies of Expertise and Experience.” Topoi, vol. 37, no. 1, 2018, pp. 67–77, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-016-9412-1.
Collins, Harry, et al. “The Imitation Game and the Nature of Mixed Methods.” Journal of Mixed Methods Research, vol. 11, no. 4, 2017, pp. 510–27, https://doi.org/10.1177/1558689815619824.
Collins, Harry, et al. “Demarcating Fringe Science for Policy.” Perspectives on Science, vol. 25, no. 4, 2017, pp. 411–38, https://doi.org/10.1162/POSC_a_00248.
Collins, Harry, et al. “STS as Science or Politics?” Social Studies of Science, vol. 47, no. 4, 2017, pp. 580–86, https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312717710131.
Collins, Harry, and Robert Evans. “Probes, Surveys, and the Ontology of the Social.” Journal of Mixed Methods Research, vol. 11, no. 3, 2017, pp. 328–41, https://doi.org/10.1177/1558689815619825.
Collins, Harry, and Robert Evans. “The Bearing of Studies of Expertise and Experience on Ethnography.” Qualitative Inquiry, vol. 23, no. 6, 2017, pp. 445–51, https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800416673663.
Collins, Harry M., et al. “A Note Concerning Primary Source Knowledge.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 68, no. 5, 2017, pp. 1105–10, https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23753.
Ribeiro, Rodrigo, and Francisco PA Lima. “The Value of Practice: A Critique of Interactional Expertise.” Social Studies of Science, vol. 46, no. 2, Apr. 2016, pp. 282–311, https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312715615970.
Collins, Harry, and Robert Evans. “A Thousand Words Is Worth a Picture.” Social Studies of Science, vol. 46, no. 2, 2016, pp. 312–24, https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312716637437.
Collins, Harry. “Social Construction of Reality.” Human Studies, vol. 39, no. 1, 2016, pp. 161–65, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-016-9388-2.
Franklin, Allan, and Harry Collins. “Two Kinds of Case Study and a New Agreement.” The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies, edited by Tilman Sauer and Raphael Scholl, vol. 319, Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp. 95–121, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30229-4_6.
Collins, Harry. “Can We Teach People What Science Is Really Like?: CAN WE TEACH PEOPLE WHAT SCIENCE IS REALLY LIKE?” Science Education, vol. 99, no. 6, 2015, pp. 1049–54, https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21189.
Collins, Harry. “Three Waves of Science Studies.” All About Science, by Maria Burguete and Lui Lam, WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2014, pp. 243–52, https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814472937_0011.
Collins, Harry, and Robert Evans. “Actor and Analyst: A Response to Coopmans and Button.” Social Studies of Science, vol. 44, no. 5, 2014, pp. 786–92, https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312714546242.
Collins, Harry. “Rejecting Knowledge Claims inside and Outside Science.” Social Studies of Science, vol. 44, no. 5, 2014, pp. 722–35, https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312714536011.
Collins, Harry. “Symmetry, Forced Asymmetry, Direct Apprehension, and Elective Modernism.” Journal of Critical Realism, vol. 13, no. 4, 2014, pp. 411–21, https://doi.org/10.1179/1476743014Z.00000000036.
Collins, Harry, and Robert Evans. “Quantifying the Tacit: The Imitation Game and Social Fluency.” Sociology, vol. 48, no. 1, 2014, pp. 3–19, https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038512455735.
Collins, Harry. “Three Dimensions of Expertise.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, vol. 12, no. 2, 2013, pp. 253–73, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-011-9203-5.
Collins, Harry. “The Core of Expertise.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, vol. 12, no. 2, 2013, pp. 399–416, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-012-9277-8.
Collins, Harry. “The Role of the Sociologist after Half-a-Century of Studying Science.” South African Review of Sociology, vol. 44, no. 1, 2013, pp. 158–79, https://doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2013.784454.
Collins, Harry, and Robert Evans. “Sport-Decision Aids and the ‘CSI-Effect’: Why Cricket Uses Hawk-Eye Well and Tennis Uses It Badly.” Public Understanding of Science, vol. 21, no. 8, 2012, pp. 904–21, https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662511407991.
Collins, Harry. “Performances and Arguments: Bruno Latour: The Modern Cult of the Factish Gods. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010, X+157pp, $69.95 HB, $19.95 PB.” Metascience, vol. 21, no. 2, 2012, pp. 409–18, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9562-0.
Collins, Harry. “Comment on Kuhn.” Social Studies of Science, vol. 42, no. 3, 2012, pp. 420–23, https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312712436571.
Collins, Harry. “Language as a Repository of Tacit Knowledge.” The Symbolic Species Evolved, edited by Theresa Schilhab et al., vol. 6, Springer Netherlands, 2012, pp. 225–39, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2336-8_11.
Collins, Harry, et al. “Object and Shadow: Responses to the CPS Critiques of Collins, Weinel and Evans’, ‘Politics and Policy of the Third Wave.’” Critical Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 3, 2011, pp. 340–48, https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2011.606309.
Collins, Harry, and Martin Weinel. “Transmuted Expertise: How Technical Non-Experts Can Assess Experts and Expertise.” Argumentation, vol. 25, no. 3, 2011, pp. 401–13, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-011-9217-8.
Collins, Harry. “Language and Practice.” Social Studies of Science, vol. 41, no. 2, 2011, pp. 271–300, https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312711399665.
Collins, Harry. “Viewpoint — Measures, Markets and Information.” Methodological Innovations Online, vol. 6, no. 1, 2011, pp. 3–6, https://doi.org/10.4256/mio.2010.0022.
Selinger, Evan, et al. “CATASTROPHE ETHICS AND ACTIVIST SPEECH: REFLECTIONS ON MORAL NORMS, ADVOCACY, AND TECHNICAL JUDGMENT: CATASTROPHE ETHICS AND ACTIVIST SPEECH.” Metaphilosophy, vol. 42, no. 1–2, 2011, pp. 118–44, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9973.2010.01671.x.
Collins, Harry, et al. “The Politics and Policy of the Third Wave: New Technologies and Society.” Critical Policy Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, July 2010, pp. 185–201, https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2010.490642.
Collins, Harry. “Preserving a Space for Science in an Age of Democracy.” PLoS Biology, vol. 8, no. 1, Jan. 2010, p. e274, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000274.
Collins, Harry. “The Philosophy of Umpiring and the Introduction of Decision-Aid Technology.” Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, vol. 37, no. 2, 2010, pp. 135–46, https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2010.9714772.
Collins, Harry M. “The New Orthodoxy: Humans, Animals, Heidegger and Dreyfus.” After Cognitivism, by Karl Leidlmair, Springer Netherlands, 2009, pp. 75–85, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9992-2_4.
Collins, Harry, et al. “Keeping the Collectivity in Mind?” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, vol. 7, no. 3, 2008, pp. 353–74, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-008-9100-8.
Collins, Harry, and Robert Evans. “You Cannot Be Serious! Public Understanding of Technology with Special Reference to ‘Hawk-Eye.’” Public Understanding of Science, vol. 17, no. 3, 2008, pp. 283–308, https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662508093370.
Collins, Harry M. “Response to Selinger on Dreyfus.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, vol. 7, no. 2, 2008, pp. 309–11, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-007-9049-z.
Collins, Harry. “Actors’ and Analysts’ Categories in the Social Analysis of Science.” Clashes of Knowledge, edited by Peter Meusburger et al., vol. 1, Springer Netherlands, 2008, pp. 101–10, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5555-3_4.
collins, Harry. “The Uses of Sociology of Science for Scientists and Educators.” Science & Education, vol. 16, no. 3–5, Feb. 2007, pp. 217–30, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-005-2389-6.
Collins, Harry, and Gary Sanders. “They Give You the Keys and Say ‘Drive It!’ Managers, Referred Expertise, and Other Expertises.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, vol. 38, no. 4, 2007, pp. 621–41, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.09.002.
Ribeiro, Rodrigo, and Harry Collins. “The Bread-Making Machine: Tacit Knowledge and Two Types of Action.” Organization Studies, vol. 28, no. 9, 2007, pp. 1417–33, https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840607082228.
Collins, Harry. “Bicycling on the Moon: Collective Tacit Knowledge and Somatic-Limit Tacit Knowledge.” Organization Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, 2007, pp. 257–62, https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840606073759.
Collins, Harry. “How Do You Know You’ve Alternated?” Social Studies of Science, vol. 34, no. 1, 2004, pp. 103–06, https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312704041342.
Collins, Harry. “The Trouble with Madeleine.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, vol. 3, no. 2, 2004, pp. 165–70, https://doi.org/10.1023/B:PHEN.0000040823.21983.19.
Collins, Harry. “Interactional Expertise as a Third Kind of Knowledge.” Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, vol. 3, no. 2, 2004, pp. 125–43, https://doi.org/10.1023/B:PHEN.0000040824.89221.1a.
Collins, H. M., and Robert Evans. “King Canute Meets the Beach Boys: Responses to the Third Wave.” Social Studies of Science, vol. 33, no. 3, 2003, pp. 435–52, https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127030333007.
Collins, H. M. “LIGO Becomes Big Science.” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, vol. 33, no. 2, 2003, pp. 261–97, https://doi.org/10.1525/hsps.2003.33.2.261.

Books in My Library

Collins, Harry M. Forms of Life: The Method and Meaning of Sociology. The MIT press, 2019.
Collins, H. M. Artifictional Intelligence: Against Humanity’s Surrender to Computers. Polity Press, 2018.
Collins, H. M. Are We All Scientific Experts Now? 2014, http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3059053.
Collins, H. M. Gravity’s Ghost: Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-First Century. The University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Collins, Harry. Tacit and Explicit Knowledge. University Of Chicago Press, 2010.
Gorman, Michael E., editor. Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration. MIT Press, 2010.
Collins, Harry, and Robert Evans. Rethinking Expertise. University of Chicago Press, 2008, http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=408441.
Collins, H. M. Gravity’s Shadow: The Search for Gravitational Waves. University of Chicago Press, 2004, http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=574733.
Collins, Harry. The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology (Canto). Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Collins, H. M. The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do. MIT Press, 1998.
Collins, Harry M. The Golem: What You Should Know about Science (Canto). Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Collins, H. M. Changing Order: Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice. University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Collins, H. M. Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines. MIT Press, 1990.