Science in Society

• Main Author: David, Matthew (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Macmillan Education UK : Imprint: Palgrave, 2005.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social Sciences.; Science and Technology Studies.

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 rol...

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.