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Social Studies of Science and Technology: Looking Back, Ahead

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Editors:
  1. Bernward Joerges

    1. Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Helga Nowotny

    1. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switserland

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Part of the book series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook (SOSC, volume 23)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook: A Personal Retrospective

    1. The Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook: A Personal Retrospective

      • Richard Whitley
      Pages 1-8

  3. STS and Society

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Sciences, Science Studies and Their Publics: Speculating on Future Relations

      • Ulrike Felt
      Pages 11-31

    3. Is That Politics?

      • Emilie Gomart, Maarten Hajer
      Pages 33-61

    4. Science and the Postmodern Shift in Contemporary Democracies

      • Yaron Ezrahi
      Pages 63-75

  5. STS — Emergence of a Field

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181
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    2. Growth, Differentiation, Expansion and Change of Identity — The Future of Science

      • Peter Weingart
      Pages 183-200

    3. Institutionalizing Science & Technology Studies in the Academy

      • Stephen Hilgartner
      Pages 201-210

    4. Prolepsis

      • Michael Hagner, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
      Pages 211-228

    5. Joy in Repetition Makes the Future Disappear

      • Michael Guggenheim, Helga Nowotny
      Pages 229-258

  6. Postscript

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259
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    2. Reflections on the Millennium, Calendars, and the Gregorian Hegemony

      • Bernward Joerges
      Pages 261-291

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 293-306
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About this book

BERNW ARD JOERGES AND HELGA NOWOTNY YET ANOTHER TURN The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's most interesting. Richard Fcynman This volume was originally conceived as a contribution to yet another 'tum', not cap­ tured by one of the many adjectives that have served to describe the collective meander­ ing of the scholarly community in search of direction, It was meant to mark the millen­ nial turn, a seemingly purely chronological event, but one in search for great meanings and invested with loaded significances. The editors wanted to seize the opportunity of the moment in order to pause and reflect on the sociology and history of social studies of science and technology. The moment came and went and the new millennium, barely nine months later, thrust its historical marker upon the world through a horrendous and cruel shock in an unforeseen and unforeseeable way. Since then, the world appears more vulnerable and volatile, fragmented and fraught with uncertainty. The universal values as bequeathed by the Enlightenment are either refused or appear refuted. The dream of a universal civilization which has accompanied the unfolding of the existing multiple modernities in their historically unique trajectories, has been discarded and its promises in tatters.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Bernward Joerges

  • ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switserland

    Helga Nowotny

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Social Studies of Science and Technology: Looking Back, Ahead

  • Editors: Bernward Joerges, Helga Nowotny

  • Series Title: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0185-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1481-9Published: 30 September 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1482-6Published: 30 September 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0185-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0167-2320

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1796

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 306

  • Topics: Methodology of the Social Sciences, Sociology, general

  • Industry Sectors: Engineering

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