es four types of strategy, each of which tries in different ways to deny, evade, or minimize the problem.
To address the critical problems emerging from this study, Woolgar proposes two main policies. Inversion means to be critical of relationships which construe a unidirectional connection between two elements of the representation couple. Feedbacking means to emphasize rather than suppress the rebounding connections between "science" as an object and our attempts to produce a study "of" science.
Woolgar next looks at how sociologists have tried to get away from problems associated with the dominance of essentialism. The issue of whether or not scientific knowledge is an accurate representation of the world has been described as a question of methodology rather than sociology. Woolgar finds that these social scientists have failed to make critical distinctions between true and false knowledge and to see a necessity for their involvement in examining both. Woolgar describes recent work on the relativity of scientific knowledge as a sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK). He calls for a strong program in SSK. Here, sociologists see both truth and error as open to investigation. Wool
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