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For the most current, comprehensive resource in this rapidly evolving field, look no further than the Revised Edition of the Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. This masterful volume is the first resource in more than 15 years to define, summarize, and synthesize this complex multidisciplinary, international field. Tightly edited with contributions by an internationally recognized team of leading scholars, this volume addresses the crucial contemporary issues—both traditional and nonconventional—social studies, political studies, and humanistic studies in this changing field. Containing theoretical essays, extensive literature reviews, and detailed case studies, this remarkable volume clearly sets the standard for the field. It does nothing less than establish itself as the benchmark, one that will carry the field well into the next century.
Public Understanding of Science
Public Understanding of Science
PUBLIC understanding of science (PUS) is a wide and ill-defined area involving several different disciplinary perspectives. Although no coherent paradigm has gained sovereignty over this area, a dominant political paradigm exists that shapes a particular framing of the “the PUS problem.” Vague though powerful concerns about “public understanding of science” have been woven into ideological programs of various kinds ever since science entered public discourse. A common thread has been anxiety among social elites about maintaining social control via public assimilation of “the natural order” as revealed by science. On a wider front, this anxiety is reflected in repeated laments about the so-called failure of traditional Third World societies to absorb Western “scientific” programs and their founding ...
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