Deciphering Science and Technology
Social Relations of Expertise
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 9. February 1990
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-333-46555-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book has its origins in the annual conference of the British Sociological Association in 1987, held in the University of Leeds on the theme "Science, Technology and Society". The papers are a selection from among those presented in Leeds and explore aspects of the current scientific-technological "revolution". Some popular ideas are challenged and so too, implicitly, are certain large-scale social scientific theories claiming to have discerned in science and technology an overall meaning. The studies follow a sequence, beginning with the demonstration of different levels of methodological approach, continuing with forms of new technology at work, and concluding with instances of scientific research and its application and of professional practice. Each study is empirical in nature, the fruit in some cases of many years of enquiry. Complexity and subtlety of issue and outcome are the main emphases of "Deciphering Science and Technology", the cumulative effect of which is to show how involved science and technology are with the workings of society today, and how, because of this, their "human" side requires disciplined and painstaking unravelling - or deciphering.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
330 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-46555-4 (9780333465554)
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The Social Relations of Expertise
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The Social Relations of Expertise
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Content
The centrality of science and technology, Ian Varcoe and Steven Yearley; the State, war and technical innovation in Great Britain, 1930-50 - the contrasts of military and civil industry, David Edgerton; who gets science education?, Alison Kelly; conceptions of British employment re-structuring in the 1980s, Anne Pollert; Unhealthy displays? - trade unions, VDUs and the social construction of a health hazard, Peter Glasner and David Travis; new technology and the self-disciplined worker in the insurance industry, David Knights and Andrew Sturdy; the automation of grain terminal elevators in Canada, Joel Novek; the incorporation of biotechnology into plant breeding in Cambridge, Andrew Webster; the story of R2 - interest, enrolment and analogy in a public health debate, Mel Bartley; the conduct of medical consultations in an echocardiography unit, Jeanne Daly et al.