Søkt på: yearbook
Vi gjorde et søk på tittelen istedenfor yearbook som gavtotalt 31 treff
Expository Science: Forms and Functions of Popularisation
The prevailing view of scientific popularization, both within academic circles and beyond, affirms that its objectives and procedures are unrelated to tasks of cognitive …
The Cognitive Turn
If nothing else, the twelve papers assembled in this volume should lay to rest the idea that the interesting debates about the nature of science are still being conducted by …
Simulation
This book examines the historical roots and evolution of simulation from an epistemological, institutional and technical perspective. Rich case studies go far beyond documentation …
The Practices of Human Genetics
That concern about human genetics is at the top of many lists of issues requiring intense discussion from scientific, political, social, and ethical points of view is today no …
The Social Process of Scientific Investigation
practice, some of which is translated into the standard forms of public discourse, in publication, and then retranslated by readers and adapted again to local practice at …
Nineteen Eighty-Four: Science Between Utopia and Dystopia
Just fifty years ago Julian Huxley, the biologist grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, published a book which easily could be seen to represent the prevail ing outlook among young …
The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity
This volume offers one of the first systematic analyses of the rise of modern social science. Contrary to the standard accounts of various social science disciplines, the essays …
The Dynamics of Science and Technology
The interrelations of science and technology as an object of study seem to have drawn the attention of a number of disciplines: the history of both science and technology, …
Denationalizing Science
Present trends indicate that in the years to come transnational science, whether basic or applied and involving persons, equipment or funding, will grow considerably. The main …
Counter-Movements in the Sciences
Heretical thoughts in an orthodox series on sociology of the sciences? Devils and science between the covers of one book? Games with ambivalence to mask collective uncertainty? We …
Democratization of Expertise?
‘Scientific advice to politics’, the ‘nature of expertise’, and the ‘relation between experts, policy makers, and the public’ are variations of a topic that currently attracts the …
Scientific Establishments and Hierarchies
In recent years sociologists of sciences have become more interested in scien tific elites, in the way they direct and control the development of sciences and, beyond that, in …