TY - BOOK ID - 1012302 TI - Beyond the science wars : the missing discourse about science and society. AU - Barber, Bernard AU - Bauer, Henry H. AU - Cholakov, Valéry AU - Fuchs, Stephan AU - Fuller, Steve AU - SegerstrÄle, Ullica AU - Ziman, John PY - 2000 SN - 0791446182 0791446174 PB - Albany State university of New York press DB - UniCat KW - Theory of knowledge KW - Science and state. KW - Science KW - Social aspects. KW - Sciences KW - Politique scientifique et technique KW - Aspect social KW - Science and state KW - Science and society KW - Sociology of science KW - Science policy KW - State and science KW - State, The KW - Social aspects KW - Government policy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1012302 AB - 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. ER -