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after receiving a Ph.D. in the U.S. The "official description of group work as cooperative" is at odds with the status achieved amongst peers and group leaders trying to make a name for themselves selling ideas, illustrating the "disguised message that only competition and transgression will prevail." Since the majority of postdocs in high energy physics do not gain employment in the field, for individuals this is a high stakes process where they aren't told the keys to success. In the stories
Traweek shares, senior physicists rationalize this competitive individualism as both just and effective in producing fine physics. American physicists "emphasize that science is not democratic: decisions about scientific purposes should not be made by majority rule within the community, nor should there be equal access to a lab's resources. On both these issues, most Japanese physicists assume the opposite."
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Americans pivot on traits traditionally associated with men, such as independence in defining goals and fierce competition in a race for discoveries. Traweek contrasts that with an image in Japan of women as "not sufficiently schooled in the masculine virtues of interdependence, dependence, in the effective organization of teamwork and camaraderie, commitment to working in one team in order to complete a complex task successfully and consulting with group members in decision making, and the capacity to nurture the newer group members in developing these skills." Traweek notes that although the traits associated with leadership are contrasting, in both cultural instances, virtues leading to success are ascribed to men.
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with Sharon's work about linguistic play between major labs or between experimentalists and theorists. An example she provided of a provocative suggestion that no one at
Fermilab could "experimentally tie their shoes" and boast that at another lab they check the "tension in their shoelaces by hand every half hour" was responded to with banter from another physicist, in the form of a call for a workshop at Fermilab where there were "so many experts on topology, string tension, and all that".
150:, Traweek aims to shed light on how high energy physicists create agreement and common understanding. She brings modes of knowledge-making sociologists call tacit knowledge, ideas and skills that are not explicitly articulated. Tacit knowledge, distinct from formal or codified knowledge such as that found in journals or textbooks, is gained primarily in collaboration with others and shared experience.
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science includes considering the politics of the aesthetics held by physicists regarding their own knowledge and making practices. The perception of the beauty of a truth or the role of certain forms of humor expresses the particular and situated cultural activity of its community. When that community can make such claims as if they are universal, it illustrates the power of that community of knowers.
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notes that whereas the fence constructed around SLAC represents contention between the lab and the community fears about radiation safety, no fence was built around KEK. The researchers and employees of KEK reside in a social engineered science city in rural Japan, whereas SLAC is located near the existing hub of scientific and technological communities.
459:. Industrial and corporate change, 9(2), 211-253. Cowan et al. express concern that through an observational methodology, it may be difficult to identify what can be considered tacit knowledge, if, for example, some previously codified knowledge has become common knowledge. In that case, observationally, it may appear as tacit knowledge. p.237.
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components of knowledge making. Anthropologists aim to enrich an understanding of science by presenting science as an activity embedded in culture, a domain rich in human practice and expression. In contrast to a view of science as a wholly rational pursuit, laboratory studies like
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system of academic chairs, Japanese researchers function within lifelong work relationships in a vertical and non-competitive group structure having clear advancement trajectory, yet with little mobility from institution to institution as is practiced in the US. The stories about a life in physics
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as a reconceptualization and reading of machine and organism as coded texts in such a way that it opens up technological determinism. Detectors and laboratory environment are key characters in the matrix of ideas, experiences, organizational structures, and histories providing a context in which
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Traweek's comparison of how high energy physics is conducted in KEK in Japan and SLAC in the US makes visible alternative values and social norms that might otherwise be taken for granted by studying one country. Comparing the physical environments and relations with surrounding communities, she
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Traweek describes the detector of one research group as enabling a particular form of research because experimentalists could regularly tinker with it to rule out alternative explanations. This contrasts with a detector built at KEK, which was optimized for stability, due to expectations within
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Traweek's book enables a view into a culture with an ideology of meritocracy, a culture featuring values and norms characteristically white and masculine. Scholars have built on her work by researching ways to increase the retention of women and people of color in science. Cultural analysis of
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