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Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies: International Workshop Proceedings doc

Science and Technology and the Future Development of Societies: International Workshop Proceedings doc

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 11:20
... 30 THE ROLE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING IN DEVELOPMENT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The data in the text and graphs are from the publications of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, Office of ... into the fields of science and technology to the communication of both the value of science and specific scientific information Communication of science is a topic that is frequently omitted in the ... to the sayings of the sages of old and modern times, I would like to offer my own definitions of culture and morality In my view, the mix of the beliefs and deeds of a society constitutes the...
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the handbook of science and technology studies

the handbook of science and technology studies

Ngày tải lên : 06/07/2014, 15:31
... Studies of Science, and President of the Society for Social Studies of Science Above and beyond these leadership roles, he was and remains a guiding spirit for the field As we reflect on the central themes ... to the study of technology, under the title “social construction of technology (SCOT), argued that the success of a technology depends on the strength and size of the groups that take it up and ... interest, and it has become common to study the interactions of science, technology, and public interests Consequently, the nature of the politics of science and technology appears to be at the very...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 2 pptx

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 2 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:22
... 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 institutional ... to a state of affairs, and so on; (6) direct perception is the end and not the beginning of the process of fact genesis Fact is the provisional end of the vector and all the questions of correspondence ... 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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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 3 pps

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 3 pps

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:22
... examines the relations between two broad arenas of scholarship and technology building at the intersection of femi- Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial 153 nism and the sciences of the ... from the point of view of the AI prac- Feminist STS and the Sciences of the Artificial 145 titioners studied by Forsythe is imagined in terms of process engineering, the design and management of ... be antithetical to the spirit of the scholarship that I have selected to review The point of distinguishing feminist-inspired STS from the wider field of research, and the “sciences of the artificial”...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 4 pptx

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 4 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:22
... questions about the social persuasiveness and power of images and about the role of science in the constitution of identity and seeing As Burri and Dumit remind us in their work on images and the authors ... Giere and Miriam Solomon, both of whom investigate the intersection between STS and the new practice-oriented philosophical studies of science In philosophy, the abandonment of the grand project of ... Center and Periphery, and the Universal Validity of Science: The Significance of the Life of S Ramanujan,” Minerva 29: 393–419 Shrum, Wesley (2000) Science and Story in Development: The Emergence of...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 5 pot

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 5 pot

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:23
... Burri and Joseph Dumit The practice turn in STS taught us to attend to the work of science and technology in terms of both the processes of production and the resulting products The challenge of ... philosophy and sociology of technology have only recently moved into the mainstream, and in both cases there have been attempts to apply to the study of technology Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology ... Perspective: The Nature of Mind and the Structure of Science (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) Churchland, Paul M (1996) The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 6 doc

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 6 doc

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:23
... 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 legitimation 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 boundaries 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

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 7 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:23
... science and technology and between the role of the scientist and that of the engineer It’s a distinction that now makes less and less sense: we’re all engineers now, and the authority of science ... of the western mind.” As late as 1986, Richard Westfall—then the dean of America’s historians of science put science right at the heart of the modern order: “For good and for ill, science stands ... indicator of other changes in the social organization of science REFLECTIONS OF INEQUALITY IN SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION The position of women in science is shaped by the role of science in society, whether...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 8 ppt

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 8 ppt

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:23
... the state,” and the market,” and of course—between science and “politics” (Epstein, 2001) Observation of patient groups and health movements reveals, on the one hand, cases of patients and ... range of factors, including the epidemiological significance of the condition, the availability of an unequivocal diagnostic test, the social class of the sufferers, the degree of activism, and the ... 2005); and in the proclamation by Harry Collins and Robert Evans (2002) of a “third wave” of science studies that reconceives the nature and boundaries of expertise From the rubric of technology...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 9 doc

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 9 doc

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:23
... concepts and theories provide illuminating analyses of the social processes that constitute science and technology and the social institutions and arrangements of which science and technology ... E Bijker (1984) The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts: Or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other,” Social Studies of Science 14: 399–431 ... permeates much of the work of the time Indeed, much of the literature of the 1980s and early 1990s can be seen as digesting the implications of engineering being practiced in the context of business...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 10 pdf

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 10 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:23
... that the other historical trends described above of the globalization of corporate trade and investment, and the crisis of the research universities, come into their own The breakdown of the 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 of the rise of commercialized science ... shaped by the authors’ attitude toward contemporary changes in the political economy of science The nature of and consequences of the profound transformations of the organization of science that...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 11 ppt

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 11 ppt

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:23
... universities and technological institutes As Noble (1977) argues, these were also facilitated by the professionalization of science and technology and the alignment of the professions with the emerging ... Science, Technology and Military Policy” tells us much about the international context of the late 1970s, in addition to the state of the study of science and technology at the time The chapter ... (London: Department of Trade and Industry) The Commercialization of Science and the Response of STS 689 Van Horn, Robert (unpublished) The Rise of the Chicago School of Law and Economics,” Ph.D...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 12 pptx

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 12 pptx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:23
... extension of core concerns in STS with the construction of facts and truth and as a means of exploring the social relations of science and technology from standpoints outside the conventional spaces of ... epistemology, and culture The section on engagements traces the relationship of science and technology with the law as a historical phenomenon and an emerging field of academic inquiry The theme of authority ... views of the nature of science 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...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 13 ppt

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 13 ppt

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:23
... well as the practices and procedures associated with them Yet there are conceptualizations of users, of the nature of illness and susceptibility, and of the relations among technologies and the body ... from at other sites Rather than there being expectations about science and technology, in the case of PUS, the expectations concern people’s reactions and behavior toward science and technology ... CREATION OF NEW GENOMIC IDENTITIES One of the most influential recent strands of argument in the field of the social studies of the life sciences concerns ideas of biosociality (Rabinow, 1996a) and...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 14 pot

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 14 pot

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:23
... being the concept of performativity, which can be seen as an extension and modification of the notion of agency developed in the sociology of science and technology Another example is the concept of ... trading programs; (3) the effects of technology on the organization of financial exchanges and the perception of financial data; and (4) the ties between technology and forms of financial expertise ... cooperative and consensus-oriented Other STS work focused on the shaping of the negotiations within the IPCC Given the huge scale of the IPCC and its novelty both as an institution and in terms of the...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 15 ppt

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 15 ppt

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:23
... biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science The magnitude and speed of such transformations demand critical reflection on the role of technology in society and the composition of ... Chair of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science, and Fellow of the Reilly Center, University of Notre Dame He is the author of Machine Dreams (2002), The Effortless Economy of Science? ... is Professor of Sociology of Science at the University of Padova, Italy His main research interests are in the area of the sociology of science, in particular the public understanding of science...
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The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 16 ppsx

The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies Part 16 ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 05:23
... 74 nanoscale science and engineering, 987–988 Public Understanding of Science (PUS) model, 78, 619, 822 Public Understanding of Science and Technology (PUST) model, 983–984 radical science movement, ... forms of, 461–462 spontaneity of, 461–463 public relations of science initiative, 645 public relations -science deficit model, 597 public understanding of science 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,...
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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

Potential biogas production from sewage sludge: A case study of the sewage treatment plant at Kwame Nkrumah university of science and technology, Ghana

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 16:11
... During these periods the university is on vacation indicating low population hence the variation in the monthly sludge generation The estimation of the biogas potential of the sludge the quality of ... Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana He is the Acting Director of The 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 of the residential apartment of lecturers and other staff of the university...
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