Unhastening Science: Autonomy and Reflexivity in the Social Theory of KnowledgeLiverpool University Press, 01.01.2003 - 274 Seiten This book offers a new account of what makes science special among other human pursuits, critically engaging with a variety of approaches, especially constructivist and relativist studies of science and technology. It focuses on the studied "lack of haste" of science, its relative freedom from stress and its socially sanctioned withdrawal from the swift pace of ordinary life. Unhastening Science offers a balanced and thoughtful argument which emphasizes the dangers of cosseting science from the "scourge" of internal competition while at the same time highlighting the need for "distance" between the process of scientific thought and the faster machinery of politics, business, sports, and the media. |
Inhalt
What Again is So Special about Science? | 25 |
Two Traditions in the Social Theory of Knowledge | 51 |
The Natural Proximity of Facts and Values | 74 |
Bourdieu on Science | 108 |
The Politics of Symmetry | 130 |
One Step Up | 157 |
Intellectual Autonomy and the Politics of Slow Motion | 179 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
academic actor-network theory actors agnosticism anti-politics Bloor boundaries Bourdieu and Wacquant Callon Cambridge Chapter circularity claims cognitive conception constructivist critical critique culture define demarcation differentiation discourse distance distinction dualism economic empirical epistemological essentialist ethical Ethnomethodology everyday fact/value facts and values field forms Habermas hence historical human idea ideology institutional interests Latour logic London Lynch Mannheim Mannheimian methodical doubt methodological moral natural proximity naturalistic naturalistic fallacy neo-Kantian neutrality normative objective objectivist ontological Pels performative philosophical Pierre Bourdieu position practices pragmatic precisely principle production professional radical rationality reality reflexive reflexive sociology reification relative relativism Routledge science and politics science studies scientific autonomy scientists Shapin simultaneously slow social epistemology social sciences Social Studies social theory social triangle society sociology of knowledge sociology of science specific speed spokesperson Strong Programme Studies of Science symmetry temporal timescape traditional truth unhastening Weber Wittgenstein Wittgensteinian Woolgar