Science Societies

Resources for Life in a Technoscientific World
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2899-1
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Hardback (Adhesive), Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

What role do science and technology play in society? What is the nature of expert knowledge? What is science’s relation to democracy?

This introduction to science, technology, and society answers these questions, and more, by exploring contemporary research on topics such as expertise, activism, science policy, and innovation. It offers a comprehensive resource for considering the place that science and technology have in contemporary societies, and the roles that they can and should play.

Accessible to a non-specialist audience, it draws on a rich range of cases and examples, from nuclear activism in India to content moderation in Kenya. Framing science as always social, and society as always shaped by science and technology, it asks: what worlds do we want science and technology to bring into being?

Autoren/Hrsg.

R Davies, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wissenschaftsethik, Technikethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction: Science Societies

2: Histories and Imaginations

3: The Mutual Shaping of Technoscience and Society

4: Representing Science

5: Public Engagements

6: Knowledge in Crisis

7: Experts and Expertise

8: Science and Governance

9: Technoscience, Power, and Justice

10: Conclusion: Resources for Life in a Technoscientific World;

Über Autor(innen)

R Davies, Sarah
Sarah R. Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality and Digital Cultures in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Sarah R. Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Cultures in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna. Her work explores the intersections between science, technology, and society, with a particular focus on digital tools and spaces. Her previous books include Science Communication: Culture, Identity, and Citizenship (2016) and Hackerspaces: Making the Maker Movement (2017).