Abstract
In attempting to understand scientific community sociologically, issues of participation and belonging come quickly to the fore. Here, I suggest that scientific texts offer a useful route into exploring these aspects of community life. Through analysis of the textual construction of scientific community we find, however, that only certain forms of participation, and certain kinds of participant, are included. This raises the question of whether existing inequalities within the scientific community are being perpetuated by the self-image projected by the community's introductory texts.
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