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Deciphering Science

Deciphering Science

McNeil, Maureen
Varcoe, Ian
Yearley, Steven

Hardcover

Series: Explorations in Sociology.

Technology & EngineeringGeneral ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0333465547
ISBN13: 9780333465547
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Feb 6 1990
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
As science and technology have pervaded modern life to an ever greater degree, social scientists have been led to find questions of the causes and consequences of 'expert' knowledge arising in places that would have been felt unlikely hitherto. Varcoe, McNeil and Yearley's book assembles nine exemplary studies by sociologists, each of which explores an aspect of the current scientific-technological 'revolution'. Some popular ideas are challenged. So, too, implicitly, are certain large-scale social scientific theories claiming to have discerned in science and technology an overall meaning.

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