Godfrey-Smith discusses the “hard program” of the sociology of science, which, briefly, understands the popularity of certain kinds of scientific work to be directly linked to the particular social views of the society and community from which they originate. Godfrey-Smith sums this up by stating that “no one can hope to take a point of view outside all local norms and conceptual systems and say, ‘This conceptual system or this set of local norms really is the best, the one that adapts us best to the world'” (Godfrey-Smith, 128).
Do you find this to hold some truth or is science, as others try to maintain, an exercise in objectivity that transcends subjective or “local” social norms?
