Sal Restivo

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Sal Restivo is affiliated with the following schools: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine, City College of New York, University of Nottingham, Harvey Mudd College, Wellesley College, University of California, San Diego, University of Hartford, Michigan State University

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#160

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#213

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#84

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PhD Sociology University of California, San Diego
Masters Sociology University of California, San Diego
Bachelors Sociology University of California, San Diego

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According to Wikipedia, Sal Restivo is a sociologist/anthropologist. Work Restivo is a leading contributor to science studies and in particular to the sociology of mathematics. His current work focuses on the sociology of mind and brain, and the sociology of god and religion. He has also done work in the sociology of social and sociable robotics. He helped launch the ethnographic study of science in the 1970s, and is a founding member and former president of the Society for Social Studies of Science. He was a founding member of the Association for Humanist Sociology, and was also involved with Science for the People in its formative years and active in the Radical Science Movement.

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The Social Relations of Physics, Mysticism, and Mathematics (1983) (80)
Assume the Position (2021) (73)
Mathematics in Society and History: Sociological Inquiries (1992) (58)
The mysterious morphology of immiscible liquids: A study of scientific practice (1982) (57)
Science, Technology, and Society: A Sociological Approach (2005) (55)
Mathematics in Society and History (2001) (47)
Degrees of compromise : industrial interests and academic values (2001) (43)
Science, Society, and Values: Toward a Sociology of Objectivity (1994) (40)
Robber Barons and Politicians in Mathematics: A Conflict Model of Science (1983) (30)
5 The Theory Landscape in Science Studies: Sociological Traditions (1995) (25)
Development, Diversity, and Conflict in the Sociology of Science (1983) (25)
The Social Life of Mathematics (1988) (21)
Science, technology, and society : an encyclopedia (2005) (21)
Bringing up and booting up: social theory and the emergence of socially intelligent robots (2001) (20)
The Invention of Science (2000) (19)
THE MYTH OF THE KUHNIAN REVOLUTION (1983) (18)
Critical Sociology of Science and Scientific Validity (1987) (18)
The Sociological Worldview (1991) (18)
Parallels and Paradoxes in Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism (1978) (17)
Parallels and Paradoxes in Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism: II — A Sociological Perspective on Parallelism (1982) (13)
The Will to Mathematics: Minds, Morals, and Numbers (2006) (12)
Red, Black, and Objective: Science, Sociology, and Anarchism (2011) (11)
Mathematics and Culture (1992) (11)
How to criticize science and maintain your sanity (1997) (10)
The Sociology of Mathematics (1985) (10)
Asphalt Children and City Streets (2011) (9)
Mathematics and the limits of the sociology of knowledge (1981) (7)
Comparative studies in science and society (1975) (7)
The Sturm und Drang of Mathematics: Casualties, Consequences, and Contingencies in the Math Wars (2007) (7)
Romancing the Robots: Social Robots and Society (2002) (6)
Sociology, Science, and the End of Philosophy (2017) (6)
The Knowable Future: A Psychology of Forecasting and Prophecy. (1979) (6)
Mathematics and the Sociology of Knowledge (1982) (6)
The Social Construction of Mathematics (2017) (6)
Commentary: Some Perspectives in Contemporary Sociology of Science (1981) (5)
AN EVOLUTIONARY SOCIOLOGY OF LOVE (2016) (5)
Review Essays: Politics of Latour (2005) (5)
Toward a socio-visual theory of information and information technology (2000) (5)
Worlds of ScienceCraft: New Horizons in Sociology, Philosophy, and Science Studies (2016) (5)
Theory of Mind, Social Science, and Mathematical Practice (2007) (4)
The Age of the Social (2018) (4)
STS and the Unabomber: Personal Essays (2001) (4)
Battleground science and technology (2008) (4)
Readings in Humanist Sociology: Social Criticism and Social Change (1986) (3)
Mathematics and Civilization (2010) (3)
Joseph Needham (9 December 1900-24 March 1995) (1996) (2)
Commentary: Science, Secrecy, and Democracy (1986) (2)
Society and the Death of God (2021) (2)
A Humanistic Perspective on Science and Society* ** (2003) (2)
The social ecology of brain and mind (2014) (1)
Open Peer Commentaries (2008) (1)
Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust, by D. MacKenzie. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001 (2004) (1)
ALL HUMAN BEINGS AS MATHEMATICAL WORKERS: SOCIOLOGY OF MATHEMATICS AS A VOICE IN SUPPORT OF THE ETHNOMATHEMATICS POSTURE AND AGAINST ESSENTIALISM (2013) (1)
22. Bruno Latour (2011) (1)
What Can a Sociologist Say about Logic (2017) (1)
Science Studies—What is to Be Done (1987) (1)
Obituary: Bernard Barber and Mary Douglas (2008) (1)
Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust, by D. MacKenzie. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. xi + 427 pp. $50.00. ISBN 0-262-13393-8. (2004) (1)
Society, Social Construction, and the Sociological Imagination (2008) (1)
The Autonomy of Science: A Historical and Comparative Analysis. (1982) (1)
Mathematics in Ancient Greece (1985) (1)
Nietzsche’s revenge (2018) (0)
Romancing the robots (2018) (0)
Some Sociological “Images & Actions” Thinking and Seeing – Durkheim (2011) (0)
Bodies in motion in the information age (2005) (0)
The last crusade (2018) (0)
Book Review:Code of the Quipu: A Study in Media, Mathematics, and Culture Marcia Ascher, Robert Ascher (1982) (0)
The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power.Peter Galison , David J. Stump (1997) (0)
Toward a Social Ecology of Brain and Mind (2012) (0)
The End of God and the Beginning of Inquiry (2021) (0)
Mathematics from the Ground Up (1992) (0)
Historical Materialism and Mathematics (1985) (0)
Dialectics, Materialism, and Mathematics (1985) (0)
The Last Chapter of God (2021) (0)
God and Society: Emile Durkheim and the Rejection of Transcendence (2017) (0)
Book Review:On Social Structure and Science Robert K. Merton, Piotr Sztompka (1998) (0)
Foundations for a Critical Sociology of Religions and the Gods (2021) (0)
Citation for Bernard Barber, 1995 Bernal Prize Recipient (1996) (0)
Science, social theory, and science criticism (1996) (0)
Genesis (2023) (0)
Personal Quest Redux, Summary, and Review ∗ (2021) (0)
Introduction (0)
The force awakens (2018) (0)
The black hole economy (2018) (0)
The physics–mysticism nexus (2018) (0)
Sociological talk about art and science: Remi Clignet. The structure of artistic revolutions. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. 344 pp. $30.00 (cloth) (1987) (0)
Conflict, Social Change, and Mathematics in Europe (1992) (0)
Numbers and Cultures (1985) (0)
Mathematics and World View (1985) (0)
What About the Gene and What About the Brain (2017) (0)
Kingdom of the crystal myth (2018) (0)
Remarks on the structure of ancient wisdom (1983) (0)
Mysticism as a Social Fact (1985) (0)
Evidence Redux (0)
Mônica’s Voice (2011) (0)
Epistemic Strategies, Society, and Social Change (1985) (0)
Physics as a Social Fact (1985) (0)
Mathematics in Europe, 1200–1700 (1985) (0)
Science and the Sociology of Knowledge.Michael Mulkay (1982) (0)
Thinking Machines: Flesh and Metal, Metal and Flesh (2017) (0)
SOCIOLOGY AND HISTORY: NOTES ON RAPPROCHEMENT (1970) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2007) (0)
Inventions in Sociology (2022) (0)
In the Wake of the Winnower: Donald R. Campbell and the Sociology of Objectivity. (1997) (0)
Inside the temple of mind (2018) (0)
Some Initial Provocations in Words and Numbers (2021) (0)
Mathematics in Context: The Arabic-Islamic Golden Age (1992) (0)
The Social Brain Paradigm (2019) (0)
Through a sociological lens darkly (2018) (0)
Mathematical practice in history and culture (1999) (0)
Requiem for Plato (2018) (0)
Book Reviews : Selforganization: Portrait of a Scientific Revolution, edited by Wolfgang Krohn, Günter Küppers, and Helga Nowotny. Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1990, 270 pp. $79.50 (cloth (1994) (0)
Mathematics as Representation (1992) (0)
Afterword (2020) (0)
The ecumene revisited in the age of the Anthropocene (2018) (0)
Reading Hans Küng (2021) (0)
The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the WestBy Toby E. Huff. Cambridge University Press, 1993. 409 pp (1996) (0)
Book Review:Dialogues with Scientists and Sages: The Search for Unity Renee Weber (1987) (0)
The Cultural Dynamics of Science (2000) (0)
The Social Relations of Pure Mathematics (1992) (0)
Introduction to the Special Issue Entitled ‘Mathematics: What Does it All Mean?’ (2006) (0)
Citation for David Bloor (1997) (0)
Interests and Ideas: Parallelism as an Intellectual Strategy (1985) (0)
Indian Mathematics: A History of Episodes (1992) (0)
The Science of Society (2017) (0)
“Einstein” as a Grammatical Illusion (2019) (0)
Foundations of the Sociology of Pure Mathematics (1992) (0)
Parallelism, Science, and Society (1985) (0)
The Mathematics of Survival in China (1992) (0)
Mathematics and Renaissance in Japan (1992) (0)
Inquiry (2018) (0)
The Social Lives of Minds and Brains (2017) (0)
Book Review:Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physics Sharon Traweek (1991) (0)
To Tell the Truth (2021) (0)
Barbara Herrnstein Smith.Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human.viii + 198 pp., bibl., index. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006. $21.95 (paper). (2007) (0)
Book Reviews : Zen and the Art of Science Studies Artificial Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligent Machines, by H. M. Collins. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990 (1992) (0)
The Social Brain: Implications for Therapeutic and Preventive Protocols in Psychiatry (2019) (0)
Book Review:Mathematics as a Cultural System Raymond L. Wilder (1982) (0)
A biography of society (2018) (0)
Einstein’s Brain: Genius, Culture, and Social Networks (2019) (0)
Raiders of the last illusion (2018) (0)
The Freedom of Knowledge (2011) (0)
Between Science and Values.Loren R. Graham (1984) (0)
Genius: Standing on the Shoulders of Social Networks (2019) (0)
Contemporary Marxist Sociology of Mathematics (1985) (0)
The human dimensions of the sociological imagination (2018) (0)
The Pitfalls of Parallelism (1985) (0)
Einstein’s Brain: A Conspiracy of Mythologies (2019) (0)
Conclusion: The Liminal Context (2017) (0)
The Social Self: Beyond the Myth of Individualism (2019) (0)
Parallels Between Physics and Mysticism (1985) (0)
Introduction to Keller's Keynote Address (1988) (0)
Some Mathematical “Images And Actions” (2011) (0)

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