Thirty years of science studies: knowledge, society and the political
Titel:
Thirty years of science studies: knowledge, society and the political
Auteur:
Pestre, Dominique
Verschenen in:
History and technology
Paginering:
Jaargang 20 (2004) nr. 4 pagina's 351-369
Jaar:
2004-12
Inhoud:
This article explores the last 30 years of science studies. It presents what the author takes to be some of the main questions raised in this field, the solutions most of its practitioners advocated, and what informed their intellectual and political attitudes. It tries to place the social studies of knowledge in a broader perspective, linking it to parallel changes in anthropology, sociology and history, and it questions its relations to social change on the one hand, and to the political on the other. It closes with a critique of some, often dominant, attitudes in the STS field.
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