Social studies of science and technology : looking back, ahead /

This volume brings together contributions that resemble spotlights thrown on the past twenty-five years of science and technology studies. The contributions cover a broad range: history of science; science and politics; science and contemporary democracy; science and the public; science and the cons...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Joerges, Bernward, Nowotny, Helga
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Science+Business Media, 2003.
Series:Sociology of the sciences ; 23.
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Table of Contents:
  • The sociology of the sciences yearbook : a personal retrospective / Richard Whitley
  • Sciences, science studies and their publics : speculating on future relations / Ulrike Felt
  • Is that politics? / Emilie Gomart and Maarten Hajer
  • Science and the postmodern shift in contemporary democracies / Yaron Ezrahi
  • History of social science : understanding modernity and rethinking social studies of science / Björn Wittrock
  • The 'triple helix' and 'new production of knowledge' as socio-cognitive fields / Terry Shinn
  • The conundrum of consciousness : changing landscapes of knowledge at the turn of the millennium / Sabine Maasen
  • In a constitutional moment : science and social order at the millennium / Sheila Jasanoff
  • Growth, differentiation, expansion and change of identity - the future of science / Peter Weingart
  • Institutionalizing science & technology studies in the academy / Stephen Hilgartner
  • Prolepsis : considerations for histories of science after 2000 / Michael Hagner and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
  • Joy in repetition makes the future disappear : a critical assessment of the present state of STS / Michael Guggenheim and Helga Nowotny
  • Reflections on the millennium, calendars, and the Gregorian hegemony / Bernward Joerges.