Handbook of Science and Technology Studies

Sheila Jasanoff, Gerald E Markle, James C Peterson, Trevor Pinch, Sheila Jasanoff, Gerald E. Markle, James C. Peterson, Trevor J. Pinch

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2001
• Print ISBN: 9780761924982
• eBook ISBN: 9781452213637
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

"This volume represents the social constructivist turn of the field. It is evident that social constructivism made a major impact on the field during the 1970s and 1980s. The diverse papers included here highlight the role of ethnography in STS. In addition, we are exposed to new perspectives of the multicultural and gendered nature of knowledge production."

—Science, Technology, and Society

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.

"The long-awaited Handbook of Science and Technology Studies sponsored by the Society for Social Studies of Science is a truly substantial work, both in size and in the breadth of its many contributions. It is a rich and valuable guide to much that is transpiring in the field of Science and Technology Studies. In the editors? words, it is ?an unconventional but arresting atlas of the field at a particular moment in its history.?"

—Science, Technology & Society

"This book is not only an important resource for practitioners, but it also may help to spark the curiosity of those who are outside the field—including scientists and engineers themselves—and so pull the ?half-seen world? of science and technology studies even more fully into the light of day."

—American Scientist

"The book as a whole is an impressive testimony to the vitality of a burgeoning field."

—New Scientist

"It reflects the international and interdisciplinary nature of the society. An excellent resource"

—Choice

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Part I - Overview
• Chapter 1 - Reinventing the Wheel
• Part II - Theory and Methods
• Chapter 2 - Four Models for the Dynamics of Science
• Chapter 3 - Coming of Age in STS: Some Methodological Musings
• Chapter 4 - The Origin, History, and Politics of the Subject Called “Gender and Science”: A First Person Account
• Chapter 5 - The Theory Landscape in Science Studies: Sociological Traditions
• Part III - Scientific and Technical Cultures
• Chapter 6 - Science and Other Indigenous Knowledge Systems
• Chapter 7 - Laboratory Studies: The Cultural Approach to the Study of Science
• Chapter 8 - Engineering Studies
• Chapter 9 - Feminist Theories of Technology
• Chapter 10 - Women and Scientific Careers
• Part IV - Constructing Technology
• Chapter 11 - Sociohistorical Technology Studies
• Chapter 12 - From “Impact” to Social Process: Computers in Society and Culture
• Chapter 13 - Science Studies and Machine Intelligence
• Chapter 14 - The Human Genome Project
• Part V - Communicating Science and Technology
• Chapter 15 - Discourse, Rhetoric, Reflexivity: Seven Days in the Library
• Chapter 16 - Science and the Media
• Chapter 17 - Public Understanding of Science
• Part VI - Science, Technology, and Controversy
• Chapter 18 - Boundaries of Science
• Chapter 19 - Science Controversies: The Dynamics of Public Disputes in the United States
• Chapter 20 - The Environmental Challenge to Science Studies
• Chapter 21 - Science as Intellectual Property
• Chapter 22 - Scientific Knowledge, Controversy, and Public Decision Making
• Part VII - Science, Technology, and the State
• Chapter 23 - Science, Government, and the Politics of Knowledge
• Chapter 24 - Politics by the Same Means: Government and Science in the United States
• Chapter 25 - Changing Policy Agendas in Science and Technology
• Chapter 26 - Science, Technology, and the Military: Relations in Transition
• Chapter 27 - Science and Technology in Less Developed Countries
• Chapter 28 - Globalizing the World: Science and Technology in International Relations
• References
• Further Reading
• Index
• About the Authors