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Science Studies : Probing ...
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monografia Rebiun37854747 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun37854747 m o d cr cnu|||||||| 241228s2002 gw o ||| 0 eng d 2001466109 1253417365 1492942619 9783839400647 3839400643 9783933127648 3933127645 Trade Paper) 9783933127648 00680054 EBLCP eng EBLCP VT2 OCLCL OCLCQ Maasen, Sabine Science Studies Probing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2002 Bielefeld Bielefeld transcript Verlag 1 online resource (304 p.). 1 online resource (304 p.). Sozialtheorie Series Description based upon print version of record Annotation. How can we understand the intensifying interactions of science and society? The answers are found in part in the interdisciplinary field called science studies. This field provides us with a rich inventory of analytical approaches. It helps us explore science as a practice, a subsystem, a culture, and an institution. Its observation is that science today is part and parcel of what has come to be known as "knowledge society." Nine exemplary studies that inquire into, or are themselves examples of the dynamics of scientific knowledge are included in this book. They cover issues as diverse as eugenics, climate research, and the role of historiography, and make use of different tools such as evolutionary reasoning, metaphor, and bibliometrics. Finally, they ponder the need for science to go public as well as for society to regulate knowledge and restructure universities as the building blocks of our science system. The message is that science studies can and should assume an active role in observing, reflecting, and communicating the intricate encounters of science and society today. Sabine Maasen teaches sociology at Basel University, Switzerland. Matthias Winterhager is senior researcher and coordinator of bibliometric studies at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany Science- Social Aspects Science- Philosophy & Social Aspects Winterhager, Matthias Print version Maasen, Sabine. Science Studies Bielefeld : transcript Verlag,c2002 Sozialtheorie Series