In this article, Star reflects on how her research was impacted by her training and experiences in the field. Being trained in Sociology at the University of California San Francisco, she describes her approach as being heavily influenced by Symbolic Interactionism.More precisely, when in the field, she attempted to account for all the participants involved in the action, "from the janitor to the Nobel Prize winner" (Star 2010, 605).
Star also admits that the idea of “interpretive flexibility” was fundamental to the constructivist approach to science studies well before it was integrated into the concept of boundary objects. Though, at this point, the two are inextricably intertwined.
