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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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Science+Business Media,
2003.
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| Series: | Sociology of the sciences ;
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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.