The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 14 pot

... 160–73). And it was on top of the peculiar difficulty of Nature and the Environment in Science and Technology Studies 927 past temperatures and particularly of past atmospheric compositions were often ... contributions of social studies of science has been to stress the irreducibility of agency to human intentionality or will and to STS and Social Studi...

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... to the work of science and technology in terms of both the processes of production and the resulting products. The chal- lenge of SIV is now to incorporate together the work of science and technology ... embed- dedness of the practices of the making and handling of visual representations and of the shaping, distributing, applying, and embo...

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... the democratization of science and technology come to the fore. THE LANGUAGE OF STS AND THE LANGUAGE OF POLICY The broad context of the crisis of representation, and the question of whether insti- tutional ... British government’s Of ce of Science and Innovation, part of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), emphasizes the shift fro...

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... is the result and is the result and not the not the cause of a machine the “social” is the result and not the not the cause of a machine cause of a statement becoming a successful cause of the ... would be antithetical to the spirit of the scholarship that I have selected to review. The point of distinguishing feminist-inspired STS from the wider fie...

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... processes of inquiry and discussion—even if understanding the product depends on the process. We normally divide the content of an argument into two parts: the conclusion or point of the argument, and ... relevance for studies of scientific practice even in the age of global networks and standardized settings. The question of “who?” of how to conceptualize ac...

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... Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences). Wouters, P. (2005) The Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences, ... defining the laboratory and the experimental station as the sites of legitima- tion of botany and zoology from the mid-nineteenth century (and thereby increasing th...

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... of science rests upon a general notion of the independence and integrity of science, and these qualities are now jeopardized by increasingly close connections of science with the production of wealth ... bits of the world but to do the right thing? The scientist is not a priest.” That’s another way of identifying the limited author- ity of the modern sci...

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... 9); of African-Americans with sickle- cell anemia who resist the racialization of the disease and the consequent pathologization of their racial identities (Fullwiley, 1998); of the sector of the ... expanding variety of ways—indeed, there is probably a complex interaction between the spread of analytical categories, on the one hand, and of the self- descri...

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... Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other,” Social Studies of Science 14: 399–431. Pinch, T. & F. Trocco (2002) Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer ... integrity and autonomy of science in the face of exter- nal challenges. As Guston discusses the related concept of “boundary organizations,” these help...

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