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Science/Technoscience has moved to centre-stage in debates over change, power and justice in twenty-first century societies. This text provides a general framework for understanding, combining and applying the rich range of approaches that exist within sociology about science: in particular, the role (and limitations) of science in generating knowledge, and the relationship between scientific knowledge and social progress. Drawing on case studies from the past up until today's new genetics, this is a clear, even-handed and comprehensive introduction to the field.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: EMERGENCE AND INNOVATION
An Introduction to Issues and Forebears
The Perspective of this Book: Reflexive Epistemological Diversity
Risk and Technoscience: The Fusion of Society, Science and Technology Today
PART TWO: THEORETICAL APPROACHES
Science and Institutional Interests: The Strong Programme and Beyond
Science and Language/Interaction: Ethnography and Discourse
Science and Capitalism: Critical Theory and Critical Realism
Science and Patriarchy: Women as Subjects/Objects of Science
PART THREE: CASE STUDIES
Second Nature: Genetic Modification and Commodification of the Non-Human
Human Nature? Human Behaviour and Genetic Determinism
Medical Genetics and Human Health
PART FOUR: Conclusions: Reflexive Epistemological Diversity (RED)
Tables.
An Introduction to Issues and Forebears
The Perspective of this Book: Reflexive Epistemological Diversity
Risk and Technoscience: The Fusion of Society, Science and Technology Today
PART TWO: THEORETICAL APPROACHES
Science and Institutional Interests: The Strong Programme and Beyond
Science and Language/Interaction: Ethnography and Discourse
Science and Capitalism: Critical Theory and Critical Realism
Science and Patriarchy: Women as Subjects/Objects of Science
PART THREE: CASE STUDIES
Second Nature: Genetic Modification and Commodification of the Non-Human
Human Nature? Human Behaviour and Genetic Determinism
Medical Genetics and Human Health
PART FOUR: Conclusions: Reflexive Epistemological Diversity (RED)
Tables.
Product details
| Published | 16 Mar 2017 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 216 |
| ISBN | 9780230802049 |
| Imprint | Red Globe Press |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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