LEADER 04481oam 2200637 c 450 001 9910367586003321 005 20220221094418.0 010 $a3-8394-0064-3 024 7 $a10.14361/9783839400647 035 $a(CKB)3710000000482523 035 $a(OAPEN)1006767 035 $a(DE-B1597)461372 035 $a(OCoLC)1013938547 035 $a(OCoLC)1032679275 035 $a(OCoLC)1037982971 035 $a(OCoLC)1041981074 035 $a(OCoLC)1046609993 035 $a(OCoLC)1047002772 035 $a(OCoLC)1049631812 035 $a(OCoLC)1054881835 035 $a(OCoLC)979597243 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783839400647 035 $a(transcript Verlag)9783839400647 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/36254 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000482523 100 $a20220221d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aScience Studies$eProbing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge$fSabine Maasen, Matthias Winterhager 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBielefeld$ctranscript Verlag$d2015 215 $a1 online resource (304) 225 0 $aSozialtheorie 311 $a3-933127-64-5 327 $aFrontmatter 1 Contents 7 Introduction. Science Studies. Probing the Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge 9 Eugenics Looking at the Role of Science Anew. A Statistical Viewpoint on the Testing of Historical Hypotheses: The Case of Eugenics 55 Humanities Inquiry Into the Growing Demand for Histories. Making Sense 71 Bibliometrics Monitoring Emerging Fields. A Bibliometric Methodology for Exploring Interdisciplinary, 'Unorthodox' Fields of Science. A Case Study of Environmental Medicine 85 Science Policy Making Universities Cope with Science Today. German Universities on the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century 123 Evolutionary Theory and the Social Sciences Increasingly a Mutual Exchange. Culture is Part of Human Biology. Why the Superorganic Concept Serves the Human Sciences Badly 145 Climatology Innovative Research Strategies in a Dynamic Field. Making Ice Talk: Notes from a Participant Observer on Climate Research in Antarctica 179 Metaphors Moving Targets in the (Social) Sciences. Why Metaphor? Toward a Metaphorics of Scientific Practice 213 Science and the Public Pushing PUS with Science Studies. What Kind of 'Public Understanding of Science' Programs Best Serve a Democracy? 235 Knowledge Politics The Paradox of Regulating Knowledge Dynamics. Policing Knowledge 257 Indices 291 330 $aHow can we understand the intensifying interactions of science and society? It is the interdisciplinary field called science studies that provides us with a rich inventory of analytical approaches. They help us explore science as a practice, a subsystem, a culture, and an institution. Their joint observation: Science today is part and parcel of what has come to be known as 'knowledge society'. More than ever, knowledge production and consumption are in need of incessant monitoring and sophisticated reflection. Nine exemplary studies that inquire into, or are themselves examples of the dynamics of scientific knowledge, are included here: They cover issues as diverse as eugenics, climate research, and the role of historiography, and make use of different tools such as evolutionary reasoning, metaphor, and bibliometrics. Finally, they ponder the need for science to go public (PUS) as well as for society to regulate knowledge and to restructure universities as building blocks of our science system. Their joint message: Science studies can and should assume an active role in observing, reflecting, and communicating the intricate encounters of science and society today. 606 $aModern Society; Science; Sociology of Science; Sociology of Knowledge; Sociology; 610 $aScience. 610 $aSociology of Knowledge. 610 $aSociology of Science. 610 $aSociology. 615 4$aModern Society; Science; Sociology of Science; Sociology of Knowledge; Sociology; 676 $a303.483 686 $aAK 26600$2rvk 700 $aMaasen$b Sabine$4edt 702 $aMaasen$b Sabine$4edt 702 $aWinterhager$b Matthias$4edt 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910367586003321 996 $aScience studies$9788771 997 $aUNINA