Doing Science Culture

Author : Roddey Reid
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135221634
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Science + Culture written by Roddey Reid and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Science + Culture is a groundbreaking book on the cultural study of science, technology and medicine. Outstanding contributors including life and physical scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, literature/communication scholars and historians of science who focus on the analysis of science and scientific discourses within culture: what it means to "do" science.

Author : Mark Erickson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509503242
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, Culture and Society written by Mark Erickson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science occupies an ambiguous space in contemporary society. Scientific research is championed in relation to tackling environmental issues and diseases such as cancer and dementia, and science has made important contributions to today’s knowledge economies and knowledge societies. And yet science is considered by many to be remote, and even dangerous. It seems that as we have more science, we have less understanding of what science actually is. The new edition of this popular text redresses this knowledge gap and provides a novel framework for making sense of science, particularly in relation to contemporary social issues such as climate change. Using real-world examples, Mark Erickson explores what science is and how it is carried out, what the relationship between science and society is, how science is represented in contemporary culture, and how scientific institutions are structured. Throughout, the book brings together sociology, science and technology studies, cultural studies and philosophy to provide a far-reaching understanding of science and technology in the twenty-first century. Fully updated and expanded in its second edition, Science, Culture and Society will continue to be key reading on courses across the social sciences and humanities that engage with science in its social and cultural context.

Author : Bernard Schiele
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811653798
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Cultures in a Diverse World: Knowing, Sharing, Caring written by Bernard Schiele and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and technology culture is now more than ever at the very heart of the social project, and all countries, to varying degrees, participate in it: raising scientific literacy, improving the image of the sciences, involving the public in debates and encouraging the young to pursue careers in the sciences. Thus, the very destiny of any society is now entwined with its ability to develop a genuine science and technology culture, accessible for participation not only to the few who, by virtue of their training or trade, work in the science and technology fields, but to all, thereby creating occasions for society to debate and to foster a positive dialogue about the directions of change and future choices. This book organized on the theme of ‘knowing, sharing, caring: new insights for a diverse world’, which was derived from the observation that globalization rests upon diversity—diversity of contexts, publics, research, strategies and new innovating practices—and aims to stimulate exchanges, discussions and debates, to initiate a reflection conducive to decentring and to be an opportunity for enrichment by providing the reader with means to achieve the potentialities of that diversity through a comparison of the visions that underpin the attitudes of social actors, the challenges they perceive and the potential solutions they consider. Thus, this book aims first and foremost to raise questions in such a manner that readers so stimulated will feel compelled to contribute and will do so. In this spirit, however significant, the results presented and shared are less important than the questions they seek to answer: How are we to rethink the diffusion, the propagation and the sharing of scientific thought and knowledge in an ever more complex and diverse world? What to know? What to share? How do we do it when science is broken down across the whole spectrum of the world’s diversity? The book is recommended for those who are interested in science communication and science cultures in the new media era, in contemporary social dynamics, and in the evolution of the role of the state and of institutions. It is also an excellent reference for researchers engaging in science communication, public understanding of science, cultural studies, science and technology museum, science–society relationship and other fields of humanities and social sciences.

Author : Mark Erickson
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745629741
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, Culture and Society written by Mark Erickson and published by Polity. This book was released on 2005-09-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this easily accessible text, Mark Erickson explains what science is and how it is carried out, the nature of the relationship between science and society, the representation of science in contemporary culture, and how scientific institutions are structured.

Author : Emily Schoerning
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349958131
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science Culture, Language, and Education in America written by Emily Schoerning and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the culture and language of science be an alienating force that discourages marginalized people from identifying with scientists and pursuing higher education in the sciences? More broadly, does an education system which unwittingly presents science as a distinct culture result in a population susceptible to doubt, confusion, and denial? This volume explores how this 'culture of science' is reflected and transmitted in the classroom, and how this can have wide-reaching and often negative implications for science education and science literacy. Well-intentioned efforts to bring hands-on scientific experiences into the classroom must also take into account how students perceive the culture of science. Areas of potential conflict include linguistic and cultural behaviors, misconceptions about science and the nature of science, and, in some cases, religious worldviews. Once recognized, these conflicts are resolvable, and valid methods exist to reduce alienation, broaden participation, and ensure that all students, whether or not they pursue STEM careers, leave school knowing that science is something that they can trust.

Author : John W. Traphagan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319417452
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, Culture and the Search for Life on Other Worlds written by John W. Traphagan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores humanity’s thoughts and ideas about extraterrestrial life, paying close attention to the ways science and culture interact with one another to create a context of imagination and discovery related to life on other worlds. Despite the recent explosion in our knowledge of other planets and the seeming era of discovery in which we live, to date we have found no concrete evidence that we are not alone. Our thinking about life on other worlds has been and remains the product of a combination of scientific investigation and human imagination shaped by cultural values--particularly values of exploration and discovery connected to American society. The rapid growth in our awareness of other worlds makes this a crucial moment to think about and assess the influence of cultural values on the scientific search for extraterrestrial life. Here the author considers the junction of science and culture with a focus on two main themes: (1) the underlying assumptions, many of which are tacitly based upon cultural values common in American society, that have shaped the ways researchers in astrobiology and SETI have conceptualized the nature of their endeavor and represented ideas about the potential influence contact might have on human civilization, and (2) the empirical evidence we can access as a way of thinking about the social impact that contact with alien intelligence might have for humanity.

Author : Andrew Pickering
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226668207
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science as Practice and Culture written by Andrew Pickering and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science as Practice and Culture explores one of the newest and most controversial developments within the rapidly changing field of science studies: the move toward studying scientific practice—the work of doing science—and the associated move toward studying scientific culture, understood as the field of resources that practice operates in and on. Andrew Pickering has invited leading historians, philosophers, sociologists, and anthropologists of science to prepare original essays for this volume. The essays range over the physical and biological sciences and mathematics, and are divided into two parts. In part I, the contributors map out a coherent set of perspectives on scientific practice and culture, and relate their analyses to central topics in the philosophy of science such as realism, relativism, and incommensurability. The essays in part II seek to delineate the study of science as practice in arguments across its borders with the sociology of scientific knowledge, social epistemology, and reflexive ethnography.

Author : Felicitas Opwis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004202749
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion written by Felicitas Opwis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays covers the classical heritage and Islamic culture, classical Arabic science and philosophy, and Muslim religious sciences, showing continuation of Greek and Persian thought as well as original Muslim contributions to the sciences, philosophy, religion, and culture of Islam.

Author : Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scientific Culture written by Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kishor Gandhi
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170172697
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Odyssey of Science, Culture, and Consciousness written by Kishor Gandhi and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -----------