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City as Truth-Spot

Laboratories and Field-Sites in Urban Studies

Thomas F. Gieryn

Indiana University, gieryn{at}indiana.edu

How does ‘place’ contribute to the credibility of scientific claims? The Chicago School of urban studies (1918-32) had close ties to the city for which it was named: its social scientists lived in Chicago, were affiliated with the University of Chicago, and made Chicago the object of almost all of their empirical research. In order for this city to become a legitimate source of claims about urban form and process, Chicago is textually made to oscillate between two available authorizing spaces. As a field-site, the city of Chicago becomes a found and uncorrupted reality, the singularly ideal place to do urban research, and requiring the analyst to get up-close and personal. As a laboratory, Chicago becomes a controlled environment where artificial specimens yield generalities true anywhere, requiring of the analyst distance and objectivity. The distinctive epistemic virtues of both field and laboratory are preserved as complementary sources of credibility, and Chicago becomes the right place for the job.

Key Words: credibility • field-site • laboratory • place • sites of science • urban studies

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Social Studies of Science, Vol. 36, No. 1, 5-38 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0306312705054526
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