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the handbook of science and technology studies
... Pinch and Wiebe Bijker’s (1987) transfer of concepts from the study of science to the study of technology, under the title “social construction of technology (SCOT), argued that the success of ... How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other,” in Wiebe E. Bijker, Science and Technology Studies and an Engaged Program 29 given way to a constellation of ... between the more “theoretical” and the more “activist” sides to STS, but there are plenty of Science and Technology Studies and an Engaged Program 19 Technical decisions are the focus of Collins and...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 2 pptx
... 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 ... both elicit, they are rendered comparable by the process of time to which they both submit. The great virtue of the innovative directors and designers of the gallery, on the top floor of the Museum, ... British government’s Of ce of Science and Innovation, part of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), emphasizes the shift from the older PUS (Public Understanding of Science) model to a new...
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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 ... technoscientific definitions of the real. The latter include divisions of subject and object, human and nonhuman, nature and culture, and relatedly, same and other, us and them. Feminist scholars ... mapping the data, the analyst constructs the situation of inquiry empiri- cally. The situation per se becomes the ultimate unit of analysis, and understanding its elements and their relations is the...
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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 ... Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction (St Leonards, NSW: Allen and Unwin). Gascoigne, John (1998) Science in the Service of Empire: Joseph Banks, the British State, and the Uses of Science in the ... relevance for studies of scientific practice even in the age of global networks and standardized settings. The question of “who?” of how to conceptualize actors and their identities—is, of course, equally...
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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 embodying of scientific visual knowledge. If seeing is so often believing, ... categorization, and analogy. The Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology 269 approaches first established in the study of science. This is apparent in the work pre- sented in The Nature of Technological...
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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 their status), the place of science ... thought they were up to, the evaluation of their activities by those who then (and later) had greater power to solidify the bound- aries of science put them on the outside—not just because of their...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 7 pdf
... 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 scientist, and the nonpriestly status of the ... Acceptance of Evolution,” Science 313(5788): 765–66. National Science Foundation (2001) Survey of Public Attitudes toward and Understanding of Science and Technology, 2001, Division of Science Resources...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 8 ppt
... 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- descriptions mobilized by the groups and ... about the character and utility of knowledge that grows out of the lived experience of sufferers of health risks. On the one hand, the literature amply demonstrates the practical benefit of incorporating...
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Potential biogas production from sewage sludge: A case study of the sewage treatment plant at Kwame Nkrumah university of science and technology, Ghana
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