... Acceptance of Evolution,” Science
313( 578 8): 76 5–66.
National Science Foundation (2001) Survey of Public Attitudes toward and Understanding of Science and
Technology, 2001, Division of Science Resources ... Frank M. (1 974 ) “Rainfall, Plagues, and the Prince of Wales: A Chapter in the Conflict of Science
and Religion,” Journal of British Studies 13:...
... Collins
nization of science underpin policy studies, work on the economics of science, and
studies of relations between science and other social institutions. And yet, the assump-
tions underlying these ... influ-
ence the selection of the topic and the recruitment of experts. A summary of these participatory events
can be found in Rowe and Frewer (2005)...
... crisis of representation is the context in which questions of the
democratization of science and technology come to the fore.
THE LANGUAGE OF STS AND THE LANGUAGE OF POLICY
The broad context of the ... “engagement” in science and
technology (House of Lords, 2000). The British government’s Of ce of Science and
Innovation, part of the Dep...
... is the result and
is the result and not the not the cause of a machine the “social” is the result and not the not the cause of a machine
cause of a statement becoming a successful cause of the ... would
be antithetical to the spirit of the scholarship that I have selected to review. The point
of distinguishing feminist-inspired STS from the wider fie...
... processes of inquiry and discussion—even if understanding the product
depends on the process.
We normally divide the content of an argument into two parts: the conclusion or
point of the argument, and ... relevance for studies of scientific practice even in the age of global
networks and standardized settings.
The question of “who?” of how to conceptualize ac...
... to the work of science and technology
in terms of both the processes of production and the resulting products. The chal-
lenge of SIV is now to incorporate together the work of science and technology ... embed-
dedness of the practices of the making and handling of visual representations and of
the shaping, distributing, applying, and embo...
... 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 legitima-
tion of botany and zoology from the mid-nineteenth century (and thereby increasing th...
... 9); of African-Americans with sickle-
cell anemia who resist the racialization of the disease and the consequent
pathologization of their racial identities (Fullwiley, 1998); of the sector of the ... expanding variety of ways—indeed, there is probably a complex interaction
between the spread of analytical categories, on the one hand, and of the self-
descri...
... E. Bijker (1984) The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts: Or How the Sociol-
ogy of Science and the Sociology of Technology Might Benefit Each Other,” Social Studies of Science 14:
399–431.
Pinch, ... integrity and autonomy of science in the face of exter-
nal challenges. As Guston discusses the related concept of “boundary organizations,”
these he...