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Science Studies

Probing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge
DOI: 10.14361/9783839400647
  • Maasen,  Sabine
    Maasen, Sabine
  • Winterhager,  Matthias
    Winterhager, Matthias

Abstract

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.

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Beiträge

Introduction. Science Studies. Probing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge
Sabine Maasen, Matthias Winterhager
Seiten: 9 - 54
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Eugenics Looking at the Role of Science Anew. A Statistical Viewpoint on the Testing of Historical Hypotheses: The Case of Eugenics
Diane B. Paul
Seiten: 55 - 70
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Humanities Inquiry Into the Growing Demand for Histories. Making Sense
Wolfgang Prinz
Seiten: 71 - 84
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Bibliometrics Monitoring Emerging Fields. A Bibliometric Methodology for Exploring Interdisciplinary, 'Unorthodox' Fields of Science. A Case Study of Environmental Medicine
Anthony F.J. van Raan, Martijn S. Visser, Thed N. van Leeuwen
Seiten: 85 - 122
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Science Policy Making Universities Cope with Science Today. German Universities on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century
Wilhelm Krull
Seiten: 123 - 144
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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
Peter J. Richerson, Robert Boyd
Seiten: 145 - 178
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Climatology Innovative Research Strategies in a Dynamic Field. Making Ice Talk: Notes from a Participant Observer on Climate Research in Antarctica
Aant Elzinga
Seiten: 179 - 212
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Metaphors Moving Targets in the (Social) Sciences. Why Metaphor? Toward a Metaphorics of Scientific Practice
James J. Bono
Seiten: 213 - 234
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Science and the Public Pushing PUS with Science Studies. What Kind of 'Public Understanding of Science' Programs Best Serve a Democracy?
Bruce V. Lewenstein
Seiten: 235 - 256
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Knowledge Politics The Paradox of Regulating Knowledge Dynamics. Policing Knowledge
Nico Stehr
Seiten: 257 - 290
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Indices
Sabine Maasen, Matthias Winterhager
Seiten: 291 - 303
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eISBN PDF
978-3-8394-0064-7
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Seitenumfang
304
BIC-Code
PDR JHB
BISAC-Code
SCI075000 SOC026000
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PDR JHB
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Verlag
transcript Verlag
Schlagworte
Modern Society, Science, Sociology of Science, Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology,

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