New Frontiers in Science and Technology StudiesSteve Fuller has a reputation for setting the terms of debate within science and technology studies. In his latest book, New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies he charts the debates likely to be of relevance in the coming years. *Should science and technology be treated as separate entities?*What impact has globalization had on science and technology? *Can science be clearly distinguished from other forms of knowledge? *Does the politicization of science really matter? *Is there a role for the social regulation of scientific inquiry? *Should we be worried about research fraud? These questions are explored by examining an array of historical, philosophical and contemporary sources. Attention is paid, for example, to the Bruno Latour's The Politics of Nature as a model for science policy, as well as the global controversy surrounding Bjorn Lomborg's The Sceptical Environmentalist, which led to the dismantling and re-establishment of the Danish national research ethics board. New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies will appeal strongly to scholars and advanced undergraduate and graduate students in courses concerned with the social dimensions of science and technology, and anyone who cares about the future of science. |
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It is worth recalling that according to the Saussurean linguistics on which
Foucault's history of knowledge systems drew , words correspond , in the first
instance , to conceptual not empirical objects . Nevertheless , it is easy to elide
the ...
It is worth recalling that according to the Saussurean linguistics on which
Foucault's history of knowledge systems drew , words correspond , in the first
instance , to conceptual not empirical objects . Nevertheless , it is easy to elide
the ...
Page 194
Sociology has always struggled with its status as both an empirical and a
normative discipline , an ambiguity preserved in the meaning of “ social
engineering , ” which as Max Weber keenly realized , mixed empirical means and
normative ...
Sociology has always struggled with its status as both an empirical and a
normative discipline , an ambiguity preserved in the meaning of “ social
engineering , ” which as Max Weber keenly realized , mixed empirical means and
normative ...
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The revival of the social engineering tradition would address , and possibly heal ,
the rift between researchers who profess , on the one hand , “ social theory ” or “
empirical sociology ” and , on the other , " social policy " or " social work .
The revival of the social engineering tradition would address , and possibly heal ,
the rift between researchers who profess , on the one hand , “ social theory ” or “
empirical sociology ” and , on the other , " social policy " or " social work .
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Contents
List of Tables and Boxes | 1 |
Sciences Need for Revolution | 11 |
Sciences Need for Unity | 53 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies |
| Author | Steve Fuller |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Wiley, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0745636934, 9780745636931 |
| Length | 240 pages |
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