>>190880754any scientist, and this includes those in the natural sciences, eventually find themselves in the position of having to communicate their ideas, and by doing so negotiate not only their own scientific culture (between members of their own research group, between different groups, between faculties, and eventually, perhaps, with the rest of us- either through interlocutors or themsleves) and this falls strictly in the realm of philosophy, sociology, anthropology, or at least within schools of those. what you're really against are certain schools within the study of sociology, not sociology itself. Believe me, sociology departments are full of arguing just like all others can be for the exact reasons you mention
>>190881160See above, the physicist does not exist outside of his own context, he is a human looking outwards, and as such as much a product of his environs as anybody else. Bachelard once said that all scientific explanations are histories of science- hermaneutics, scientific pedagogy, an ontology of science, or the scientific attitude
