The Social Construction of Science 53 The book addresses researchers in Jr The book addresses researchers in language acquisition from various theoretical camps: generative With the help and under the aegis ofWHO The analysis presented is therefore unique in its breadth of focus and shows how the traditional concerns of sociology with generalised macro structures of meaning and action can be related to the lifeworlds of individual scientists I hope that this book reflects the excitement I experienced in being able to respond to the debates and concepts which erupted in that particularly fertile period follOwing the publication of Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions in 1962 a period from which a cogni tively oriented sociology of the sciences was to emerge as a serious challenger to orthodoxies in the history