'Sociology and Information Science'—a comment

Watson, L.E. ct. al. Sociology and information science. J. Librarianship 5 (4) October 1973, 270-283.

Apart from other texts cited below, see, for example:

Fairthorne, R.A. Towaras information retrieval [Papers I947 to I960] Butterworths , 1961.

Fairthorne, R.A. Implications of test procedures, and, Similarity and stability of textual interests. In Western Reserve University ... Information retrieval in action . Cleveland, Ohio, W.R.U. Press , 1963.

Fairthorne, R.A. An outsider inside information. Aslib Proc. 14 (II) 1962, 380-391. Fairthorne, R.A. Browsing schemes and specialist schemes. In Some problems of a general classification scheme. Library Association, 1963.

Fairthorne, R.A. Unification of theory and empiricism in information retrieval. Springfield, Virginia, C.F.S.T.I., 1967 (AD 661 973).

Fairthorne, R. A. The scope and aims of the information sciences and technologies. In FID/RI. On theoretical problems of informatics. Moskva, V.I.N.I.T.I., I969 (FID 435). Fairthorne, R. A. [Review of Farradane and others] J. Doc., 24 (2) I968, I27-I3I. Fairthorne, R. A. Empirical hyperbolic distributions ... J. Doc., 25 (4) I969, 3I9-343. Fairthorne, R. A. Innovation resulting for research and development in the information field. I:A researcher's view: the detection of innovation. Aslib Proc. 22 (II) 1970, 550-558.

Fairthorne R. A. Response [to H. Borko] In E.B. Montgomery. Foundations of access to knowledge. Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press, 1968.

4 Watson, L. E. et al. op cit. p. 279.

Fairthorne, R.A. Use and mention in the information sciences. In American Documentation Institute. Proceedings of the symposium on education for information science ... Washington, District of Columbia, Spartan Books, 1965.

Fairthorne, R.A. Morphology of information flow. J. Assoc. Computing Machinery 14 (4) 1967, 710-719.

Fairthorne, R.A. Repartee [to J. Z. Nitecki] J. Libr His. 3 (4) 1968, 89-93.

Fairthorne, R.A. Content analysis, specification and control . Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (4) 1968, 73-109.

CRG Minutes (I78) I9 January I97I is a pertinent example.

I refer here not only to the somewhat abbreviated study—K. M. Petyt. Some recent approaches to the study of meanings. Aslib Proc. 24 (2) I972—but to the extensive work of J. J. Gumperz, D. Hymes and W. Labov. Apart from the issues of the journal Language in Society I (I) I972 (the first issue carrying an exceptionally fine introduction to the issues by Hymes) see, as exemplars:

Gumperz, J.J. Speech community. Ch. I0 in P. Giglioli (ed) Language and social context. Penguin, 1972.

Hymes, D. The scope of socio-linguistics. Items 26 (2) June 1972.

Labov, W. Mechanism of linguistic change. Ceorgetown Monographs on language and linguistics. (18) 1965.

Fairthorne, R. A. Text cited at Note 3 above.

Kuhn, T.S. Structure of scientific revolutions. 1962 ed. reprinted with a new postscript. Chicago University Press, 1969. See also the contributions of Kuhn and P. K. Feyerabend to 1. Lakatos and A. Musgrave. Criticism and the growth of knowledge. Cambridge U.P. I970. 11 Barnes, S.B. and Dolby, R.G.A. The scientific ethos: a deviant viewpoint . Archiv. europ. sociol II (I) 1970, 3-25.

Dolby, R.G.A. Sociology of knowledge in natural science. Science studies I (1) 1971, 3021.

Barnes, S.B. Sociological explanation and natural science: a Kuhnian reappraisal. Archiv. europ. sociol 13 (2) 1972, 373-393.

Mulkay, M.J. Conformity and innovation in science. Sociological review monographs (18), 1972.

Fairthorne, R. A. Text cited at note 6 above.

Fairthorne, R. A. First text cited at note 2 above, p. 90.

Fairthorne, R. A. First text cited at note 2 above, p. I88; see also, in this connection, R.D. Whitley. Black boxism and the sociology of science . Sociological review monographs, (18), 1972.