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91 relations: Alan G. Gross, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Bioethics, Biomedical sciences, Black swan theory, Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Brian Wynne, British Journal of Sociology, Bruno Latour, Charles Bazerman, Chernobyl, Chernobyl disaster, Cognition, Cognitive science, Cultural studies, Cumbria, David Bloor, Derek J. de Solla Price, Dichotomy, Discourse, Epistemology, Ethnomethodology, Evaluation, Expert, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Free Culture (book), Global issue, Global warming, Harry Collins, Helga Nowotny, History and philosophy of science, History of science, Interdisciplinarity, Karin Knorr Cetina, Laboratory Life, List of volcanoes in the United Kingdom, Mapping controversies, Maria Ossowska, Mathematical beauty, Merton thesis, Natural hazard, Omphaloskepsis, Outline of physical science, Paradigm, Peter Weingart, Philosophy of science, Pollution, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, Public awareness of science, ..., Radioactive contamination, Reiner Grundmann, Research, Rhetoric of science, Risk society, Routledge, Science and technology studies, Science and Technology Studies in India, Science policy, Science wars, Scientometrics, Scott Lash, Sellafield, Semiotics, Sharon Traweek, Sheila Jasanoff, Smart Mobs, Sociology of scientific knowledge, Sokal affair, Soufrière Hills, Stanisław Ossowski, Steve Woolgar, Strong programme, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, The Third Wave (Toffler book), Thing (assembly), Thomas Kuhn, Thomas P. Hughes, Transcendental idealism, Trevor Pinch, Ulrich Beck, Ulrike Felt, University of Edinburgh, Volcanology, Volcanology of Iceland, Volcanology of Italy, W. H. Bramble Airport, We Have Never Been Modern, Wiebe Bijker, Wiley-Blackwell. Expand index (41 more) »
Alan G. Gross
Alan G. Gross (born 1936) is a Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by educator Neil Postman.
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Bioethics
Bioethics is the study of the ethical issues emerging from advances in biology and medicine.
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Biomedical sciences
Biomedical sciences are a set of applied sciences applying portions of natural science or formal science, or both, to knowledge, interventions, or technology that are of use in healthcare or public health.
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Black swan theory
The black swan theory or theory of black swan events is a metaphor that describes an event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit of hindsight.
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy and fatal neurodegenerative disease in cattle that may be passed to humans who have eaten infected flesh.
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Brian Wynne
Brian Wynne (Born 14 January 1947) is Professor Emeritus of Science Studies and a former Research Director of the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC) at the Lancaster University.
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British Journal of Sociology
The British Journal of Sociology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 1950 at the London School of Economics.
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Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour (born 22 June 1947) is a French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist.
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Charles Bazerman
Charles Bazerman (born 1945) is an American educator and scholar.
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Chernobyl
Chernobyl or Chornobyl (Chornobyl′,;; Charnobyl′) is a city in the restricted Chernobyl Exclusion Zone situated in the Ivankiv Raion of northern Kiev Oblast, near Ukraine's border with Belarus.
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Chernobyl disaster
The Chernobyl disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident.
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Cognition
Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".
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Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes.
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Cultural studies
Cultural studies is a field of theoretically, politically, and empirically engaged cultural analysis that concentrates upon the political dynamics of contemporary culture, its historical foundations, defining traits, conflicts, and contingencies.
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Cumbria
Cumbria is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England.
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David Bloor
David Bloor (born 1942) is a British sociologist.
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Derek J. de Solla Price
Derek John de Solla Price (22 January 1922 – 3 September 1983) was a physicist, historian of science, and information scientist, credited as the father of scientometrics.
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Dichotomy
A dichotomy is a partition of a whole (or a set) into two parts (subsets).
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Discourse
Discourse (from Latin discursus, "running to and from") denotes written and spoken communications.
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Epistemology
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.
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Ethnomethodology
Ethnomethodology is the study of methods people use for understanding and producing the social order in which they live.
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Evaluation
Evaluation is a systematic determination of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards.
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Expert
An expert is someone who has a prolonged or intense experience through practice and education in a particular field.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar.
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Free Culture (book)
Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity (published in paperback as Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity) is a 2004 book by law professor Lawrence Lessig that was released on the Internet under the Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial license on March 25, 2004.
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Global issue
Informally, a global issue is issue that any social, economic, political or environmental problem that adversely affects the global community and our environment, possibly in a catastrophic way.
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Global warming
Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.
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Harry Collins
Harry Collins, FBA (born 13 June 1943), is a British sociologist of science at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales.
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Helga Nowotny
Helga Nowotny (born 1937) is Professor emeritus of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zurich.
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History and philosophy of science
The history and philosophy of science (HPS) is an academic discipline that encompasses the philosophy of science and the history of science.
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History of science
The history of science is the study of the development of science and scientific knowledge, including both the natural and social sciences.
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Interdisciplinarity
Interdisciplinarity or interdisciplinary studies involves the combining of two or more academic disciplines into one activity (e.g., a research project).
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Karin Knorr Cetina
Karin Knorr Cetina (also Karin Knorr-Cetina) (born 19 July 1944 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian sociologist well known for her work on epistemology and social constructionism, summarized in the books The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science (1981) and Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge (1999).
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Laboratory Life
Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts is a 1979 book by sociologists of science Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar.
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List of volcanoes in the United Kingdom
There are no active volcanoes in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but there are a few active volcanoes in some British Overseas Territories.
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Mapping controversies
Mapping controversies (MC) is an academic course taught in science studies, stemming from the writings of the French sociologist and philosopher Bruno Latour.
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Maria Ossowska
Maria Ossowska (née Maria Niedźwiecka, 16 January 1896, Warsaw – 13 August 1974, Warsaw) was a Polish sociologist and social philosopher.
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Mathematical beauty
Mathematical beauty describes the notion that some mathematicians may derive aesthetic pleasure from their work, and from mathematics in general.
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Merton thesis
The Merton thesis is an argument about the nature of early experimental science proposed by Robert K. Merton.
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Natural hazard
A natural hazard is a natural phenomenon that might have a negative effect on humans or the environment.
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Omphaloskepsis
Omphaloskepsis or navel-gazing is contemplation of one's navel as an aid to meditation.
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Outline of physical science
Physical science is a branch of natural science that studies non-living systems, in contrast to life science.
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Paradigm
In science and philosophy, a paradigm is a distinct set of concepts or thought patterns, including theories, research methods, postulates, and standards for what constitutes legitimate contributions to a field.
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Peter Weingart
Peter Weingart (born 5 June 1941 in Marburg) is a German professor emeritus in sociology and former director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld.
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Philosophy of science
Philosophy of science is a sub-field of philosophy concerned with the foundations, methods, and implications of science.
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Pollution
Pollution is the introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause adverse change.
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Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.
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Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, that was established in its current form on January 1, 2013, through the consolidation of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township.
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Public awareness of science
Public awareness of science (PAwS), public understanding of science (PUS), or more recently, Public Engagement with Science and Technology (PEST) are terms relating to the attitudes, behaviours, opinions, and activities that comprise the relations between the general public or lay society as a whole to scientific knowledge and organisation.
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Radioactive contamination
Radioactive contamination, also called radiological contamination, is the deposition of, or presence of radioactive substances on surfaces or within solids, liquids or gases (including the human body), where their presence is unintended or undesirable (from the International Atomic Energy Agency - IAEA - definition).
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Reiner Grundmann
Reiner Grundmann, (born 29 September 1955 near Freudenstadt) is Professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS) at the University of Nottingham and Director of its interdisciplinary STS Research Priority Group.
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Research
Research comprises "creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of humans, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications." It is used to establish or confirm facts, reaffirm the results of previous work, solve new or existing problems, support theorems, or develop new theories.
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Rhetoric of science
Rhetoric of science is a body of scholarly literature exploring the notion that the practice of science is a rhetorical activity.
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Risk society
Risk society is the manner in which modern society organizes in response to risk.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
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Science and technology studies
Science and technology studies, or science, technology and society studies (both abbreviated STS) is the study of how society, politics, and culture affect scientific research and technological innovation, and how these, in turn, affect society, politics and culture.
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Science and Technology Studies in India
Science and Technology Studies (STS), also known as Science, Technology and Society Studies, is a fast growing field of academic inquiry in India since the 1980s.
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Science policy
Science policy is concerned with the allocation of resources for the conduct of science towards the goal of best serving the public interest.
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Science wars
The science wars were a series of intellectual exchanges, between scientific realists and postmodernist critics, about the nature of scientific theory and intellectual inquiry.
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Scientometrics
Scientometrics is the study of measuring and analysing science, technology and innovation.
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Scott Lash
Scott Lash (born December 23, 1945) is a professor of sociology and cultural studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.
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Sellafield
Sellafield is a nuclear fuel reprocessing and nuclear decommissioning site, close to the village of Seascale on the coast of the Irish Sea in Cumbria, England.
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Semiotics
Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication.
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Sharon Traweek
Sharon Jean Traweek is associate professor in the Department of Gender Studies and History at University of California, Los Angeles.
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Sheila Jasanoff
Sheila Sen Jasanoff is an Indian American academic and significant contributor to the field of Science and Technology Studies.
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Smart Mobs
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution is a book by Howard Rheingold dealing with the social, economic and political changes implicated by developing technology.
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Sociology of scientific knowledge
The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is the study of science as a social activity, especially dealing with "the social conditions and effects of science, and with the social structures and processes of scientific activity." The sociology of scientific ignorance (SSI) is complementary to the sociology of scientific knowledge.
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Sokal affair
The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax,Derrida (1997) was a scholarly publishing sting perpetrated by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London.
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Soufrière Hills
The Soufrière Hills volcano is an active, complex stratovolcano with many lava domes forming its summit, on the Caribbean island of Montserrat.
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Stanisław Ossowski
Stanisław Ossowski (Lipno, 22 May 18977 November 1963, Warsaw) was one of Poland's most important sociologists.
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Steve Woolgar
Stephen William Woolgar (born 14 February 1950) is a British sociologist.
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Strong programme
The strong programme or strong sociology is a variety of the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) particularly associated with David Bloor, Barry Barnes, Harry Collins, Donald A. MacKenzie, and John Henry.
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family from Houaysouy, Sainyabuli Province, Laos,Fadiman.
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962; second edition 1970; third edition 1996; fourth edition 2012) is a book about the history of science by the philosopher Thomas S. Kuhn.
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The Third Wave (Toffler book)
The Third Wave is a 1980 book by Alvin Toffler.
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Thing (assembly)
A thing, also known as Alþing, was the governing assembly of a northern Germanic society, made up of the free people of the community presided over by lawspeakers.
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Thomas Kuhn
Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American physicist, historian and philosopher of science whose controversial 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.
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Thomas P. Hughes
Thomas Parke Hughes (September 13, 1923 – February 3, 2014) was an American historian of technology.
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Transcendental idealism
Transcendental idealism is a doctrine founded by German philosopher Immanuel Kant in the 18th century.
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Trevor Pinch
Trevor J. Pinch (born 1 January 1952), is a British sociologist, part-time musician and former chair of the Science and Technology Studies department at Cornell University.
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Ulrich Beck
Ulrich Beck (15 May 1944 – 1 January 2015) was a well known German sociologist, and one of the most cited social scientists in the world during his lifetime.
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Ulrike Felt
Ulrike Felt (born 1957) is an Austrian social scientist, active in the field of Science and Technology Studies.
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University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.
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Volcanology
Volcanology (also spelled vulcanology) is the study of volcanoes, lava, magma, and related geological, geophysical and geochemical phenomena.
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Volcanology of Iceland
The volcanoes of Iceland include a high concentration of active ones due to Iceland's location on the mid-Atlantic Ridge, a divergent tectonic plate boundary, and its location over a hot spot.
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Volcanology of Italy
Italy is a volcanically active country, containing the only active volcanoes in mainland Europe.
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W. H. Bramble Airport
W.H. Bramble Airport, also known as Blackburne Airport, was a small international airport on the east coast of the island of Montserrat, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean.
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We Have Never Been Modern
We Have Never Been Modern is a 1991 book by Bruno Latour, originally published in French as Nous n'avons jamais été modernes: Essai d'anthropologie symétrique (English translation: 1993).
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Wiebe Bijker
Wiebe E. Bijker (born 19 March 1951, Delft) is a Dutch professor, chair of the Department of Social Science and Technology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands.
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Wiley-Blackwell
Wiley-Blackwell is the international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.
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References
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