Inside knowledge: second order measures of skill

Pinch, T., Collins, Harold Maurice ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2909-9035 and Carborne, L. 1996. Inside knowledge: second order measures of skill. The Sociological Review 44 (2) , pp. 163-186. 10.1111/j.1467-954X.1996.tb00420.x

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Abstract

This paper is intended as a contribution to the sociology of skill. Research which suggests that skills and their transmission are the properties of communities leaves unanswered the question of how information may be explicitly transmitted and acquired as part of the process of leaning a skill. Second-order studies of skill accept that skill acquisition occurs within a culture, but then go on to examine in detail which aspects of skills can be explicated and which cannot. Such a second-order study is presented here. Observations of veterinary surgery are used to identify a quasi-quantitative measure of skill acquisition – hardness. This measure is useful in understanding how task uncertainty is resolved in practice and how new skills are learnt.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	1467-954X
Last Modified:	01 Nov 2022 09:47
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/89228

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