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Author : E. Mendelsohn,P. Weingart,R.D. Whitely
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401011860
Author : Everett Mendelsohn,Peter Weingart,Richard Whitley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Science
ISBN : 9022707768
Author : Peter Weingart,Richard Whitley,Everett Mendelsohn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:797920046
Author : Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134328338
Notes on contributors Acknowledgements 1. The Idiom of Co-production Sheila Jasanoff 2. Ordering Knowledge, Ordering Society Sheila Jasanoff 3. Climate Science and the Making of a Global Political Order Clark A. Miller 4. Co-producing CITES and the African Elephant Charis Thompson 5. Knowledge and Political Order in the European Environment Agency Claire Waterton and Brian Wynne 6. Plants, Power and Development: Founding the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, 1880-1914 William K. Storey 7. Mapping Systems and Moral Order: Constituting property in genome laboratories Stephen Hilgartner 8. Patients and Scientists in French Muscular Dystrophy Research Vololona Rabeharisoa and Michel Callon 9. Circumscribing Expertise: Membership categories in courtroom testimony Michael Lynch 10. The Science of Merit and the Merit of Science: Mental order and social order in early twentieth-century France and America John Carson 11. Mysteries of State, Mysteries of Nature: Authority, knowledge and expertise in the seventeenth century Peter Dear 12. Reconstructing Sociotechnical Order: Vannevar Bush and US science policy Michael Aaron Dennis 13. Science and the Political Imagination in Contemporary Democracies Yaron Ezrah 14. Afterword Sheila Jasanoff References Index
Author : Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134328345
The authors demonstrate that the idiom of co-production importantly extends the vocabulary of the traditional social sciences, offering fresh analytic perspectives on the nexus of science, power and culture.
Author : Sergio Sismondo
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438420202
By looking at science as a social and political activity, researchers have created novel accounts of scientific practice and rationality, accounts that largely contradict the dominant ideologies of science. Science without Myth is a philosophical introduction to and discussion of these social and political studies of science—a discussion of the social construction of scientific knowledge as a product of communities and societies marked by the circumstances of its production. The book argues that there are a number of important and interesting ways in which scientific knowledge can be a social construction but that it often is knowledge of the material world; therefore, this book is an essay on mediation or the mediatory roles of scientists between nature and knowledge. By identifying and separating different senses of the "construction" metaphor, this book displays senses in which scientists construct knowledge, phenomena, and even worlds. It shows science as made up of thoroughly social processes and that those processes create representations of a pre-existing material world. Science without Myth's argument provides a counter-balance to skeptical tendencies of constructivist studies of science and technology by showing that skepticism cannot cut so deeply as to deny the possibility of knowledge and representation.
Author : Jerome R. Ravetz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000159844
Science is continually confronted by new and difficult social and ethical problems. Some of these problems have arisen from the transformation of the academic science of the prewar period into the industrialized science of the present. Traditional theories of science are now widely recognized as obsolete. In Scientific Knowledge and Its Social Problems (originally published in 1971), Jerome R. Ravetz analyzes the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems. He demonstrates the role of choice and value judgment, and the inevitability of error, in scientific research. Ravetz's new introductory essay is a masterful statement of how our understanding of science has evolved over the last two decades.
Author : Olaf Kühne,Karsten Berr
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658391409
This volume provides a basic introduction to the philosophy of science and its central concepts, theories, and philosophical, scientific, and spatial positions and approaches.
Author : Michael Mulkay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317651185
How far is scientific knowledge a product of social life? In addressing this question, the major contributors to the sociology of knowledge have agreed that the conclusions of science are dependent on social action only in a very special and limited sense. In Science and the Sociology of Knowledge Michael Mulkay's first aim is to identify the philosophical assumptions which have led to this view of science as special; and to present a systematic critique of the standard philosophical account of science, showing that there are no valid epistemological grounds for excluding scientific knowledge from the scope of sociological analysis. The rest of the book is devoted to developing a preliminary interpretation of the social creation of scientific knowledge. The processes of knowledge-creation are delineated through a close examination of recent case studies of scientific developments. Dr Mulkay argues that knowledge is produced by means of negotiation, the outcome of which depends on the participants' use of social as well as technical resources. The analysis also shows how cultural resources are taken over from the broader social milieu and incorporated into the body of certified knowledge; and how, in the political context of society at large, scientists' technical as well as social claims are conditioned and affected by their social position.
Author : Massimiano Bucchi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134354863
The world around us is continually being shaped by science, and by society’s relationship to it. In recent years sociologists have been increasingly preoccupied with the latter, and now in this fascinating book, Massimiano Bucchi provides a brief introduction to this topical issue. Bucchi provides clear and unassuming summaries of all the major theoretical positions within the sociology of science, illustrated with many fascinating examples. Theories covered include Thomas Kuhn's theory of scientific change, the sociology of scientific knowledge, actor-network theory, and the social construction of technology. The second half of the book looks at recent public controversies over the role of science in the modern world including: * the Sokal affair, otherwise known as the science wars * debates over public understanding of science, such as global warming and genetically modified food * the implications of the human genome project. This much needed introduction to a rapidly growing area brings theory alive and will be essential reading for all students of the sociology of science.
Author : Colin Elman,John Gerring,James Mahoney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108486774
A wide-ranging discussion of factors that impede the cumulation of knowledge in the social sciences, including problems of transparency, replication, and reliability. Rather than focusing on individual studies or methods, this book examines how collective institutions and practices have (often unintended) impacts on the production of knowledge.
Author : Helen E. Longino
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691088764
Seeking to break the deadlock in the ongoing wars between philosophers of science and sociologists of science, this text argues that social interaction actually assists us in securing firm, rationally-based knowledge, clarifying the philosophical points at issue.
Author : Michael Gibbons
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994-09-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0803977948
Evolution of Knowledge Production The Marketability and Commercialisation of Knowledge Massification of Research and Education The Case of the Humanities Competitiveness, Collaboration and Globalisation Reconfiguring Institutions Towards Managing Socially Distributed Knowledge.
Author : Jeff Kochan
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781783744138
In this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) with Martin Heidegger’s early existential conception of science. Kochan shows convincingly that these apparently quite different approaches to science are, in fact, largely compatible, even mutually reinforcing. By combining Heidegger with SSK, Kochan argues, we can explicate, elaborate, and empirically ground Heidegger’s philosophy of science in a way that makes it more accessible and useful for social scientists and historians of science. Likewise, incorporating Heideggerian phenomenology into SSK renders SKK a more robust and attractive methodology for use by scholars in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Kochan’s ground-breaking reinterpretation of Heidegger also enables STS scholars to sustain a principled analytical focus on scientific subjectivity, without running afoul of the orthodox subject-object distinction they often reject. Science as Social Existence is the first book of its kind, unfurling its argument through a range of topics relevant to contemporary STS research. These include the epistemology and metaphysics of scientific practice, as well as the methods of explanation appropriate to social scientific and historical studies of science. Science as Social Existence puts concentrated emphasis on the compatibility of Heidegger’s existential conception of science with the historical sociology of scientific knowledge, pursuing this combination at both macro- and micro-historical levels. Beautifully written and accessible, Science as Social Existence puts new and powerful tools into the hands of sociologists and historians of science, cultural theorists of science, Heidegger scholars, and pluralist philosophers of science.
Author : Stephan Fuchs
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791409236
This book argues that the power of science as the most respected and authoritative world view is based on its superior material and organizational resources, not on its superior rationality. Fuchs approaches science as a social construct, and utilizing a theory of scientific organizations, he analyzes knowledge production in scientific fields--how they differ in their resources and how these differences affect how science is conducted. The book explains why certain fields produce science and facts, while others engage in hermeneutics and conversation; why certain specialities change through cumulation rather than fragmentation; and why some fields are relativistic while others are positivist in their self-understanding. This general theory of knowledge is applicable not only to science, but to all varieties of professional groups engaged in knowledge production.
