... 30 THEROLEOFSCIENCEAND ENGINEERING IN DEVELOPMENT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The data in the text and graphs are from the publications ofthe Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, Office of ... into the fields ofscienceandtechnology to the communication of both the value ofscienceand specific scientific information Communication ofscience is a topic that is frequently omitted in the ... to the sayings ofthe sages of old and modern times, I would like to offer my own definitions of culture and morality In my view, the mix ofthe beliefs and deeds of a society constitutes the...
... Studies of Science, and President ofthe Society for Social Studies ofScience Above and beyond these leadership roles, he was and remains a guiding spirit for the field As we reflect on the central themes ... to the study of technology, under the title “social construction oftechnology (SCOT), argued that the success of a technology depends on the strength and size ofthe groups that take it up and ... interest, and it has become common to study the interactions of science, technology, and public interests Consequently, the nature ofthe politics ofscienceandtechnology appears to be at the very...
... democratization ofscienceandtechnology come to the fore THE LANGUAGE OF STS ANDTHE LANGUAGE OF POLICY The broad context ofthe crisis of representation, andthe question of whether institutional ... to a state of affairs, and so on; (6) direct perception is the end and not the beginning ofthe process of fact genesis Fact is the provisional end ofthe vector and all the questions of correspondence ... British government’s Of ce ofScienceand Innovation, part ofthe Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), emphasizes the shift from the older PUS (Public Understanding of Science) model to a new...
... examines the relations between two broad arenas of scholarship andtechnology building at the intersection of femi- Feminist STS andthe Sciences ofthe Artificial 153 nism andthe sciences ofthe ... from the point of view ofthe AI prac- Feminist STS andthe Sciences ofthe Artificial 145 titioners studied by Forsythe is imagined in terms of process engineering, the design and management of ... be antithetical to the spirit ofthe scholarship that I have selected to review The point of distinguishing feminist-inspired STS from the wider field of research, andthe “sciences ofthe artificial”...
... questions about the social persuasiveness and power of images and about theroleofscience in the constitution of identity and seeing As Burri and Dumit remind us in their work on images andthe authors ... Giere and Miriam Solomon, both of whom investigate the intersection between STS andthe new practice-oriented philosophical studies ofscience In philosophy, the abandonment ofthe grand project of ... Center and Periphery, andthe Universal Validity of Science: The Significance ofthe Life of S Ramanujan,” Minerva 29: 393–419 Shrum, Wesley (2000) Scienceand Story in Development: The Emergence of...
... Burri and Joseph Dumit The practice turn in STS taught us to attend to the work ofscienceandtechnology in terms of both the processes of production andthe resulting products The challenge of ... philosophy and sociology oftechnology have only recently moved into the mainstream, and in both cases there have been attempts to apply to the study oftechnology Cognitive Studies ofScienceandTechnology ... Perspective: The Nature of Mind andthe Structure ofScience (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) Churchland, Paul M (1996) The Engine of Reason, The Seat ofthe Soul: A Philosophical Journey into the Brain...
... 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 andthe experimental station as the sites of legitimation of botany and zoology from the mid-nineteenth century (and thereby increasing their status), the place ofscience ... thought they were up to, the evaluation of their activities by those who then (and later) had greater power to solidify the boundaries ofscience put them on the outside—not just because of their...
... scienceandtechnologyand between theroleofthe scientist and that ofthe engineer It’s a distinction that now makes less and less sense: we’re all engineers now, andthe authority ofscience ... ofthe western mind.” As late as 1986, Richard Westfall—then the dean of America’s historians ofscience put science right at the heart ofthe modern order: “For good and for ill, science stands ... indicator of other changes in the social organization ofscience REFLECTIONS OF INEQUALITY IN SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION The position of women in science is shaped by theroleofscience in society, whether...
... the state,” andthe market,” andof course—between scienceand “politics” (Epstein, 2001) Observation of patient groups and health movements reveals, on the one hand, cases of patients and ... range of factors, including the epidemiological significance ofthe condition, the availability of an unequivocal diagnostic test, the social class ofthe sufferers, the degree of activism, andthe ... 2005); and in the proclamation by Harry Collins and Robert Evans (2002) of a “third wave” ofscience studies that reconceives the nature and boundaries of expertise From the rubric of technology...
... concepts and theories provide illuminating analyses ofthe social processes that constitute scienceandtechnologyandthe social institutions and arrangements of which scienceandtechnology ... E Bijker (1984) The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts: Or How the Sociology ofScienceandthe Sociology ofTechnology Might Benefit Each Other,” Social Studies ofScience 14: 399–431 ... permeates much ofthe work ofthe time Indeed, much ofthe literature ofthe 1980s and early 1990s can be seen as digesting the implications of engineering being practiced in the context of business...
... that the other historical trends described above ofthe globalization of corporate trade and investment, andthe crisis ofthe research universities, come into their own The breakdown ofthe Chandlerian ... lean on the work of Alfred Chandler, and in particular his book The Visible Hand (1977), to provide the framework within which they situate their understandings ofthe rise of commercialized science ... shaped by the authors’ attitude toward contemporary changes in the political economy ofscienceThe nature ofand consequences ofthe profound transformations ofthe organization ofscience that...
... universities and technological institutes As Noble (1977) argues, these were also facilitated by the professionalization ofscienceandtechnologyandthe alignment ofthe professions with the emerging ... Science, Technologyand Military Policy” tells us much about the international context ofthe late 1970s, in addition to the state ofthe study ofscienceandtechnology at the time The chapter ... (London: Department of Trade and Industry) The Commercialization ofScienceandthe Response of STS 689 Van Horn, Robert (unpublished) The Rise ofthe Chicago School of Law and Economics,” Ph.D...
... extension of core concerns in STS with the construction of facts and truth and as a means of exploring the social relations ofscienceandtechnology from standpoints outside the conventional spaces of ... epistemology, and culture The section on engagements traces the relationship ofscienceandtechnology with the law as a historical phenomenon and an emerging field of academic inquiry The theme of authority ... views ofthe nature ofscience withstood the critical insights offered by STS academics 778 Sheila Jasanoff SCIENCE, LAW, AND CULTURE The idea of law may be universal, but the ways in which the...
... well as the practices and procedures associated with them Yet there are conceptualizations of users, ofthe nature of illness and susceptibility, andofthe relations among technologies andthe body ... from at other sites Rather than there being expectations about scienceand technology, in the case of PUS, the expectations concern people’s reactions and behavior toward scienceandtechnology ... CREATION OF NEW GENOMIC IDENTITIES One ofthe most influential recent strands of argument in the field ofthe social studies ofthe life sciences concerns ideas of biosociality (Rabinow, 1996a) and...
... being the concept of performativity, which can be seen as an extension and modification ofthe notion of agency developed in the sociology ofscienceandtechnology Another example is the concept of ... trading programs; (3) the effects oftechnology on the organization of financial exchanges andthe perception of financial data; and (4) the ties between technologyand forms of financial expertise ... cooperative and consensus-oriented Other STS work focused on the shaping ofthe negotiations within the IPCC Given the huge scale ofthe IPCC and its novelty both as an institution and in terms of the...
... biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive scienceThe magnitude and speed of such transformations demand critical reflection on theroleoftechnology in society andthe composition of ... Chair of Economics andthe History and Philosophy of Science, and Fellow ofthe Reilly Center, University of Notre Dame He is the author of Machine Dreams (2002), The Effortless Economy of Science? ... is Professor of Sociology ofScience at the University of Padova, Italy His main research interests are in the area ofthe sociology of science, in particular the public understanding of science...
... 74 nanoscale scienceand engineering, 987–988 Public Understanding ofScience (PUS) model, 78, 619, 822 Public Understanding ofScienceandTechnology (PUST) model, 983–984 radical science movement, ... forms of, 461–462 spontaneity of, 461–463 public relations ofscience initiative, 645 public relations -science deficit model, 597 public understanding ofscience acceptance politics and the, 992–993 ... deference toward science/ scientists, 770–771 experts and expertise in the, 619, 766, 776 the language of, 762 making science in the court, 455–456 morality of the, 764 natural law and judicial decision-making,...
... During these periods the university is on vacation indicating low population hence the variation in the monthly sludge generation The estimation ofthe biogas potential ofthe sludge the quality of ... Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University ofScienceandTechnology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana He is the Acting Director ofThe Energy Centre, College of Engineering, ... halls of residence, main library and faculty buildings on campus are connected as shown in Figure 1, the same cannot be said ofthe residential apartment of lecturers and other staff ofthe university...