Science Studies : Probing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge /
Science Studies : Probing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge /
edited by Sabine Maasen, Matthias Winterhager.
- 1. Aufl.
- 1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations.
- Sozialtheorie .
- Sozialtheorie. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Science Studies. Probing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge / Eugenics Looking at the Role of Science Anew. A Statistical Viewpoint on the Testing of Historical Hypotheses: The Case of Eugenics / Humanities Inquiry Into the Growing Demand for Histories. Making Sense / Bibliometrics Monitoring Emerging Fields. A Bibliometric Methodology for Exploring Interdisciplinary, 'Unorthodox' Fields of Science. A Case Study of Environmental Medicine / Science Policy Making Universities Cope with Science Today. German Universities on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century / Evolutionary Theory and the Social Sciences Increasingly a Mutual Exchange. Culture is Part of Human Biology. Why the Superorganic Concept Serves the Human Sciences Badly / Climatology Innovative Research Strategies in a Dynamic Field. Making Ice Talk: Notes from a Participant Observer on Climate Research in Antarctica / Metaphors Moving Targets in the (Social) Sciences. Why Metaphor? Toward a Metaphorics of Scientific Practice / Science and the Public Pushing PUS with Science Studies. What Kind of 'Public Understanding of Science' Programs Best Serve a Democracy? / Knowledge Politics The Paradox of Regulating Knowledge Dynamics. Policing Knowledge / Indices. Maasen, Sabine ; Winterhager, Matthias -- Paul, Diane B. -- Prinz, Wolfgang -- van Raan, Anthony F.J. ; Visser, Martijn S. ; van Leeuwen, Thed N. -- Krull, Wilhelm -- Richerson, Peter J. ; Boyd, Robert -- Elzinga, Aant -- Bono, James J. -- Lewenstein, Bruce V. -- Stehr, Nico --
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How can we understand the intensifying interactions of science and society? It is the interdisciplinary field called science studies that provides us with a rich inventory of analytical approaches. They help us explore science as a practice, a subsystem, a culture, and an institution. Their joint observation: Science today is part and parcel of what has come to be known as 'knowledge society'. More than ever, knowledge production and consumption are in need of incessant monitoring and sophisticated reflection. Nine exemplary studies that inquire into, or are themselves examples of the dynamics of scientific knowledge, are included here: 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 (PUS) as well as for society to regulate knowledge and to restructure universities as building blocks of our science system. Their joint message: Science studies can and should assume an active role in observing, reflecting, and communicating the intricate encounters of science and society today.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Dr. Sabine Maasen is Research Coordinator at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research in Munich. Dr. Matthias Winterhager is senior researcher and coordinator of bibliometric studies at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld.
In English.
9783839400647 3839400643
10.14361/9783839400647 doi 9783839400647 urn:nbn:de:101:1-201608183279 urn
1111821771 DE-101
Eugenics--History.
Science--Social aspects.
Sociology.
Impact of science & technology on society.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Eugenics.
Science--Social aspects.
Wissenschaftssoziologie
(Produktform)Electronic book text (BISAC Subject Heading)SOC026000 Science Sociology Sociology of Knowledge Science, Sociology of Science, Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology EBK: eBook Sociology of Science
Electronic book.
History.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Q175.5
303.48/3
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Science Studies. Probing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge / Eugenics Looking at the Role of Science Anew. A Statistical Viewpoint on the Testing of Historical Hypotheses: The Case of Eugenics / Humanities Inquiry Into the Growing Demand for Histories. Making Sense / Bibliometrics Monitoring Emerging Fields. A Bibliometric Methodology for Exploring Interdisciplinary, 'Unorthodox' Fields of Science. A Case Study of Environmental Medicine / Science Policy Making Universities Cope with Science Today. German Universities on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century / Evolutionary Theory and the Social Sciences Increasingly a Mutual Exchange. Culture is Part of Human Biology. Why the Superorganic Concept Serves the Human Sciences Badly / Climatology Innovative Research Strategies in a Dynamic Field. Making Ice Talk: Notes from a Participant Observer on Climate Research in Antarctica / Metaphors Moving Targets in the (Social) Sciences. Why Metaphor? Toward a Metaphorics of Scientific Practice / Science and the Public Pushing PUS with Science Studies. What Kind of 'Public Understanding of Science' Programs Best Serve a Democracy? / Knowledge Politics The Paradox of Regulating Knowledge Dynamics. Policing Knowledge / Indices. Maasen, Sabine ; Winterhager, Matthias -- Paul, Diane B. -- Prinz, Wolfgang -- van Raan, Anthony F.J. ; Visser, Martijn S. ; van Leeuwen, Thed N. -- Krull, Wilhelm -- Richerson, Peter J. ; Boyd, Robert -- Elzinga, Aant -- Bono, James J. -- Lewenstein, Bruce V. -- Stehr, Nico --
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How can we understand the intensifying interactions of science and society? It is the interdisciplinary field called science studies that provides us with a rich inventory of analytical approaches. They help us explore science as a practice, a subsystem, a culture, and an institution. Their joint observation: Science today is part and parcel of what has come to be known as 'knowledge society'. More than ever, knowledge production and consumption are in need of incessant monitoring and sophisticated reflection. Nine exemplary studies that inquire into, or are themselves examples of the dynamics of scientific knowledge, are included here: 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 (PUS) as well as for society to regulate knowledge and to restructure universities as building blocks of our science system. Their joint message: Science studies can and should assume an active role in observing, reflecting, and communicating the intricate encounters of science and society today.
Electronic reproduction.
[S.l.] :
HathiTrust Digital Library,
2010.
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
Dr. Sabine Maasen is Research Coordinator at the Max-Planck-Institute for Psychological Research in Munich. Dr. Matthias Winterhager is senior researcher and coordinator of bibliometric studies at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld.
In English.
9783839400647 3839400643
10.14361/9783839400647 doi 9783839400647 urn:nbn:de:101:1-201608183279 urn
1111821771 DE-101
Eugenics--History.
Science--Social aspects.
Sociology.
Impact of science & technology on society.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Eugenics.
Science--Social aspects.
Wissenschaftssoziologie
(Produktform)Electronic book text (BISAC Subject Heading)SOC026000 Science Sociology Sociology of Knowledge Science, Sociology of Science, Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology EBK: eBook Sociology of Science
Electronic book.
History.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Q175.5
303.48/3