Smoother Pebbles presents a collection of essays authored or coauthored by Jonathan R. Cole, a leading Columbia Program figure, that trace the development and institutionalization of the sociology of science.
Smoother Pebbles presents a collection of essays authored or coauthored by Jonathan R. Cole, a leading Columbia Program figure, that trace the development and institutionalization of the sociology of science.
The former provost of Columbia University explores the vital role of America's research universities as engines of technological and economic growth--and illuminates the urgent need to protect them
Columbia University sociologist Jonathan Cole credits his mother for the reference to Gray's "Elegy" which provides the book's charming title (pun intended) and its leitmotif: while women scientists were clearly discriminated against in the past, the academic community now "distributes its resources and rewards in an equitable fashion, " though the results show some puzzling anomalies. Where residual inequality persists, without doubt, is in r...
