... The Handbook ofScienceandTechnologyStudiesThe Handbook ofScienceandTechnologyStudies Handbook Advisory Board Wiebe E Bijker Michel Callon ... Social Studiesof Science, and President ofthe Society for Social StudiesofScience Above and beyond these leadership roles, he was and remains a guiding spirit for the field As we reflect on the ... Sismondo There is the part ofScienceandTechnologyStudies (STS) that addresses and often challenges traditional perspectives in philosophy, sociology, and history ofscienceand technology; ...
... democratization ofscienceandtechnology come to the fore THE LANGUAGE OF STS ANDTHE LANGUAGE OF POLICY The broad context ofthe crisis of representation, andthe question of whether institutional ... “Breaking the Waves in Science Studies: Comment on H M Collins and Robert Evans, The Third Wave ofScienceStudies ,” Social StudiesofScience 33(3): 389–400 Jessop, Bob (2002) The Future ofthe ... hesitating movement ofthe objects of study themselves Each ofthetwo rows is further commented on by the following captions: The story of horses: the classic version: In the nineteenth and early twentieth...
... examines the relations between two broad arenas of scholarship andtechnology building at the intersection of femi- Feminist STS andthe Sciences ofthe Artificial 153 nism andthe sciences ofthe ... from the point of view ofthe AI prac- Feminist STS andthe Sciences ofthe Artificial 145 titioners studied by Forsythe is imagined in terms of process engineering, the design and management of ... in thecaseof various bodily augmentations I then expand the frame from the figure ofthe augmented body to more extended arrangements of persons and things, which I discuss under the heading of...
... attention to the exigencies of goals, modalities, and audiences In all these respects, these studies share the concerns and approaches of STS studiesof discourse, yet at the same time they offer us ... Giere and Miriam Solomon, both of whom investigate the intersection between STS andthe new practice-oriented philosophical studiesofscience In philosophy, the abandonment ofthe grand project of ... ranging and multifaceted in thecaseof e -science, examined here by the VKS The amazing heterogeneity ofthe uses of computers andthe Internet in contemporary science with changes in both methods and...
... philosophy and sociology oftechnology have only recently moved into the mainstream, and in both cases there have been attempts to apply to the study oftechnology Cognitive StudiesofScienceandTechnology ... COGNITIVE STUDIESOFTECHNOLOGY In history, philosophy, and sociology, the study oftechnology has lagged behind the study ofscienceThe history oftechnology is now well established, but both the ... Burri and Joseph Dumit The practice turn in STS taught us to attend to the work ofscienceandtechnology in terms of both the processes of production andthe resulting products The challenge of...
... 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 andthe experimental station as the sites of legitimation of botany and zoology from the mid-nineteenth century (and thereby increasing their status), the place ofscience ... thought they were up to, the evaluation of their activities by those who then (and later) had greater power to solidify the boundaries ofscience put them on the outside—not just because of their...
... ofthe western mind.” As late as 1986, Richard Westfall—then the dean of America’s historians ofscience put science right at the heart ofthe modern order: “For good and for ill, science stands ... scienceandtechnologyand between the role ofthe scientist and that ofthe engineer It’s a distinction that now makes less and less sense: we’re all engineers now, andthe authority ofscience ... between the abstract and formalized estimates ofthe experts andthe perception of risk by the farmers caused a loss of confidence by the latter in the government experts and their conviction that of cial...
... 2005); and in the proclamation by Harry Collins and Robert Evans (2002) of a “third wave” ofsciencestudies that reconceives the nature and boundaries of expertise From the rubric oftechnology studies, ... the state,” andthe market,” andof course—between scienceand “politics” (Epstein, 2001) Observation of patient groups and health movements reveals, on the one hand, cases of patients and ... 247–59 Martin, Brian (1997) Science, Technologyand Nonviolent Action: TheCase for a Utopian Dimension in the Social Analysis ofScienceand Technology, ” Social StudiesofScience 27: 439–63 Martin,...
... concepts and theories provide illuminating analyses ofthe social processes that constitute scienceandtechnologyandthe social institutions and arrangements of which scienceandtechnology ... takes two STS ideas—that ofthe co-production oftechnologyand society and that of sociotechnical systems and shows that they have important implications for understanding the responsibilities of ... reinforce the conventional boundaries between the human andthe nonhuman, the political andthe scientific, government andthe public, the EEA concept is to be open to the transgression of boundaries and...
... nization ofscience underpin policy studies, work on the economics of science, andstudiesof relations between scienceand other social institutions And yet, the assumptions underlying these more ... that the other historical trends described above ofthe globalization of corporate trade and investment, andthe crisis ofthe research universities, come into their own The breakdown ofthe Chandlerian ... lean on the work of Alfred Chandler, and in particular his book The Visible Hand (1977), to provide the framework within which they situate their understandings ofthe rise of commercialized science...
... universities and technological institutes As Noble (1977) argues, these were also facilitated by the professionalization ofscienceandtechnologyandthe alignment ofthe professions with the emerging ... Science, Technologyand Military Policy” tells us much about the international context ofthe late 1970s, in addition to the state ofthe study ofscienceandtechnology at the time The chapter ... about the issues associated with science, technology, andthe military, rather than problematizing scienceandtechnology themselves, and their boundaries with society, economy, politics, and the...
... extension of core concerns in STS with the construction of facts and truth and as a means of exploring the social relations ofscienceandtechnology from standpoints outside the conventional spaces of ... PERSPECTIVES ScienceandTechnologyStudies Over the decade since the last edition of this Handbook, the social sciences have been flooded with analysis of processes of change in the world system, often ... views ofthe nature ofscience withstood the critical insights offered by STS academics 778 Sheila Jasanoff SCIENCE, LAW, AND CULTURE The idea of law may be universal, but the ways in which the...
... from at other sites Rather than there being expectations about scienceand technology, in thecaseof PUS, the expectations concern people’s reactions and behavior toward scienceandtechnology ... CREATION OF NEW GENOMIC IDENTITIES One ofthe most influential recent strands of argument in the field ofthe social studiesofthe life sciences concerns ideas of biosociality (Rabinow, 1996a) and ... well as the practices and procedures associated with them Yet there are conceptualizations of users, ofthe nature of illness and susceptibility, andofthe relations among technologies andthe body...
... (2003) The Third Wave ofScience Studies: Studiesof Expertise and Experience,” Social StudiesofScience 32(2): 235–96 Davis, John B (2003) The Theory ofthe Individual in Economics: Identity and ... being the concept of performativity, which can be seen as an extension and modification ofthe notion of agency developed in the sociology ofscienceandtechnology Another example is the concept of ... activities, and thus the rate of such atmospheric change Nature andthe Environment in ScienceandTechnologyStudies 929 depends on the speed and nature of economic growth, the size of future...
... ofScienceandTechnologyStudiesand Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis His research interests are in the anthropology of science, technology, ... is Professor of Sociology ofScience at the University of Padova, Italy His main research interests are in the area ofthe sociology of science, in particular the public understanding ofscience ... Professor and Chair ofScienceandTechnologyStudies at Cornell University He has published fourteen books and numerous articles on aspects ofthe sociology ofscienceandtechnology His studies...
... 74 nanoscale scienceand engineering, 987–988 Public Understanding ofScience (PUS) model, 78, 619, 822 Public Understanding ofScienceandTechnology (PUST) model, 983–984 radical science movement, ... forms of, 461–462 spontaneity of, 461–463 public relations ofscience initiative, 645 public relations -science deficit model, 597 public understanding ofscience acceptance politics and the, 992–993 ... deference toward science/ scientists, 770–771 experts and expertise in the, 619, 766, 776 the language of, 762 making science in the court, 455–456 morality of the, 764 natural law and judicial decision-making,...
... During these periods the university is on vacation indicating low population hence the variation in the monthly sludge generation The estimation ofthe biogas potential ofthe sludge the quality of ... Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University ofScienceandTechnology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana He is the Acting Director ofThe Energy Centre, College of Engineering, ... halls of residence, main library and faculty buildings on campus are connected as shown in Figure 1, the same cannot be said ofthe residential apartment of lecturers and other staff ofthe university...
... brief presentation ofthe research type, the setting ofthe study, the selection ofthe participants, the description ofthe intervention, the data collection instruments andthe data analysis ... participants, the description ofthe intervention andthe methods of data collection and data analysis The fourth chapter reports the findings and their discussions Finally, the report ends with the conclusion ... for the collocations they need, they will expand their mental lexicon without the presence of a teacher (p 28) Ying and O‟Neill (2009) find that, with the adoption ofthe AWARE approach, the...