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Author(s): Sabine Maasen (editor); Matthias Winterhager (editor)
ISBN(s): 9783839400647, 3839400643
Edition: 1. Aufl.
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Year: 2015
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 3933127645
ISBN 13: 9783933127648
Author: Sabine Maasen, Matthias Winterhager

How can we understand the intensifying interactions of science and society? The answers are found in part in the interdisciplinary field called science studies. This field provides us with a rich inventory of analytical approaches. It helps us explore science as a practice, a subsystem, a culture, and an institution. Its observation is that science today is part and parcel of what has come to be known as “knowledge society.”

Nine exemplary studies that inquire into, or are themselves examples of the dynamics of scientific knowledge are included in this book. 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 as well as for society to regulate knowledge and restructure universities as the building blocks of our science system. The message is that science studies can and should assume an active role in observing, reflecting, and communicating the intricate encounters of science and society today.

Sabine Maasen teaches sociology at Basel University, Switzerland. Matthias Winterhager is senior researcher and coordinator of bibliometric studies at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld, Germany.

Science Studies Probing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge 1st Table of contents:

  1. Introduction
  2. Eugenics – Looking at the Role of Science Anew
  3. Humanities – Inquiry Into the Growing Demand for Histories
  4. Bibliometrics – Monitoring Emerging Fields
  5. Science Policy – Making Universities Cope with Science Today
  6. Evolutionary Theory and the Social Sciences – Increasingly a Mutual Exchange
  7. Climatology – Innovative Research Strategies in a Dynamic Field
  8. Metaphors – Moving Targets in the (Social) Sciences
  9. Science and the Public – Pushing PUS with Science Studies
  10. Knowledge Politics – The Paradox of Regulating Knowledge Dynamics
  11. Indices

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