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Beyond the Science Wars: The Missing Discourse about Science and Society

Beyond the Science Wars: The Missing Discourse about Science and Society

Segerstrale, Ullica

Paperback

Series: Suny Science, Technology, and Society

Sports GeneralGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0791446182
ISBN13: 9780791446188
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Aug 3 2000
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.57 Width: 5.95 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

Contextualizes the Science Wars from interdisciplinary sociological, historical, scientific, political, and cultural perspectives.

Beyond the Science Wars offers a broad contextualization of the Science Wars-an ongoing debate between scientists and social scientists over the nature and meaning of science-from interdisciplinary sociological, historical, scientific, political, and cultural perspectives. Beyond providing an understanding of the conflict itself, this book presents the comments of two science and technology studies' (STS) founding fathers (Bernard Barber and John Ziman), a scientist's protest that STS has abandoned its original mission, a historian's view of the fluctuating social support for science, and a sociologist's analysis of the motives of anti-antiscience warriors. In addition, an STS statesman discusses ongoing structural changes in science, a sociologist sorts out different views of objectivity, and an STS veteran from the Science Wars brings us tales from the front and evaluates the meaning of recent events.

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