An introduction to science and technology studies / Sergio Sismondo
- Bib ID:
- 3075492
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Sismondo, Sergio
- Description:
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- Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2004
- vii, 202 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0631234438
- 0631234446
- Summary:
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"This volume provides a roadmap to the complex interdisciplinary terrain of science and technology studies. The book presents the historical background for this burgeoning field, focusing on the central debates and key theoretical advances. Topics include realism and social construction, discourse and rhetoric, objectivity, the role of experiment and theory, controversies, and the critique of science and technology. Distinctive in its attention to the underlying philosophical and sociological aspects of science and technology, and written specifically with students in mind, An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies is ideal for those new to this exciting and controversial area of study."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Prehistory of Science and Technology Studies
- 2. The Kuhnian Revolution
- 3. Questioning Functionalism in the Sociology of Science
- 4. Stratification and Discrimination
- 5. The Strong Programme and the Sociology of Knowledge
- 6. The Social Construction of Scientific and Technical Realities
- 7. Actor-Network Theory
- 8. Two Questions Concerning Technology
- 9. Laboratories
- 10. Controversies
- 11. Standardization and Objectivity
- 12. Creating Order, Following Rules
- 13. Feminist S&TS and its Extensions
- 14. Rhetoric and Discourse
- 15. The Unnaturalness of Science and Technology
- 16. Expertise and the Public Understanding of Science.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-194) and index.
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