Social Studies of Science and Technology: Looking Back, Ahead (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Joerges, B.; Nowotny, H.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together contributions that resemble spotlights thrown on the past twenty-five years of science and technology studies. It covers a broad range: history of science; science and politics; science and contemporary democracy; science and the public; science and the constitution; science and metaphors; and science and modernity and provides a critical overview of how the field of science and technology studies has emerged and developed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401001854
• Artikelnr.: 44064336

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook: A Personal Retrospective.- Un Peu d'Histoire.- The Changing Context of the Yearbook.- I STS and Society.- 2: Sciences, Science Studies and Their Publics: Speculating on Future Relations.- 3: Is That Politics?.- 4: Science and The Postmodern Shift in Contemporary Democracies.- II STS and The Social Sciences.- 5: History of Social Science: Understanding Modernity and Rethinking Social Studies of Science.- 6: The 'Triple Helix' and 'New Production of Knowledge' as Socio-Cognitive Fields.- 7: The Conundrum of Consciousness: Changing Landscapes of Knowledge at the Turn of the Millennium.- 8: In a Constitutional Moment: Science And Social Order at the Millennium.- III STS - Emergence of a Field.- 9: Growth, Differentiation, Expansion and Change of Identity - the Future of Science.- 10: Institutionalizing Science & Technology Studies in the Academy.- 11: PROLEPSIS: Considerations for Histories of Science After 2000.- 12: Joy in Repetition Makes the Future Disappear: A Critical Assessment of the Present State of STS.- Postscript.- 13: Reflections on the Millennium, Calendars, and the Gregorian Hegemony.- List of Contributors.- Biographical Notes.- Author Index.