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ISBN: 0521432685 0521525209 0511563736 0511882106 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
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Misunderstanding Science? offers a challenging new perspective on the public understanding of science. In so doing, it also challenges existing ideas of the nature of science and its relationships with society. Its analysis and case presentation are highly relevant to current concerns over the uptake, authority, and effectiveness of science as expressed, for example, in areas such as education, medical/health practice, risk and the environment, technological innovation. Based on several in-depth case-studies, and informed theoretically by the sociology of scientific knowledge, the book shows how the public understanding of science questions raises issues of the epistemic commitments and institutional structures which constitute modern science. It suggests that many of the inadequacies in the social integration and uptake of science might be overcome if modern scientific institutions were more reflexive and open about the implicit normative commitments embedded in scientific cultures.
Sociology of knowledge --- -Science news --- News, Science --- Popularization of science --- Popularization --- Science news --- Science --- Communication in science --- Journalism --- Technical writing --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Social aspects --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Science news. --- Social aspects.
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ISBN: 9780262514255 9780262265959 0262265958 9780262266314 0262266318 9780262265652 0262265656 0262514257 1282638246 9781282638242 0262276445 9786612638244 9780262276443 6612638249 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,
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A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.
Sociology of knowledge --- Technology --- Civilization, Modern. --- Philosophie de la technique --- Technologie --- Civilisation moderne --- Modernité --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects. --- Aspect social --- Civilization, Modern --- Technology and civilization --- Modern civilization --- Modernity --- Civilization --- Renaissance --- Philosophy --- Social aspects --- History --- Philosophie de la technique. --- Civilisation moderne. --- Modernité. --- Aspect social. --- SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General --- Modernité.
ISBN: 080397938X 0803979371 128388075X 1848609574 0585343705 Year: 1996 Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications,
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This wide-ranging and accessible contribution to the study of risk, ecology and environment helps us to understand the politics of ecology and the place of social theory in making sense of environmental issues. The book provides insights into the complex dynamics of change in 'risk societies'.
Environmental policy. --- Environmental risk assessment. --- Estimation des risques environnementaux --- Milieurisico [Schatting van het ] --- Risques environnementaux [Estimation des ] --- Environmental policy --- Environmental risk assessment --- Risk assessment --- Precautionary principle --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental protection --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Government policy --- 316.32 --- 316.42 --- 316.42 Social change. Sociale ontwikkeling. Sociale veranderingen. Modernisering. Evolutie .Sociale revolutie. Modernisme --- Social change. Sociale ontwikkeling. Sociale veranderingen. Modernisering. Evolutie .Sociale revolutie. Modernisme --- 316.32 Globale samenlevingsvormen --- Globale samenlevingsvormen --- Social change --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Human beings --- Influence on nature
ISBN: 1281259314 9786611259310 1848131690 9781848131699 1842775510 9781842775516 1842775502 9781842775509 1350222453 9781281259318 6611259317 Year: 2005 Publisher: London New York Zed Books
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Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors from diverse experiences and analytical traditions, encouraging a conversation between science and technology and development studies around issues of science, citizenship and globalisation. It reflects on the nature of expertise; the framing of knowledge; processes of public engagement; and issues of rights, justice and democracy. A wide varie.
Biology --- Science --- Biotechnology --- Globalization. --- World citizenship. --- Social aspects. --- Earth citizenship --- Global citizenship --- Supranational citizenship --- Transnational citizenship --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Citizenship --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Bioethics --- Globalization --- World citizenship --- 824 Globalisering --- 844 Sociale Structuur --- Social aspects --- #SBIB:316.23H2 --- #SBIB:324H60 --- Sociologie van de wetenschappen --- Politieke socialisatie --- Sociology of knowledge --- Community organization --- Biology - Social aspects --- Science - Social aspects --- Biotechnology - Social aspects --- Political science & theory --- Science: general issues --- BIOLOGIE --- SCIENCE --- Biotechnologie --- MONDIALISATION --- CITOYENNETE --- RISQUE --- ASPECT SOCIAL --- Aspect social
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