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Autore: | Pels Dick <1948-> |
Titolo: | Unhastening science [[electronic resource] ] : autonomy and reflexivity in the social theory of knowledge / / Dick Pels |
Pubblicazione: | Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (284 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.42 |
Soggetto topico: | Knowledge, Sociology of |
Science - Social aspects | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: The Timescape of Science; 2: What (Again) is So Special about Science?; 3: Two Traditions in the Social Theory of Knowledge; 4: The Natural Proximity of Facts and Values; 5: Knowledge Politics and Anti-Politics: Bourdieu on Science and Intellectuals; 6: The Politics of Symmetry; 7: Reflexivity: One Step Up; 8: Intellectual Autonomy and the Politics of Slow Motion; Epilogue: Weak Social Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 stress-freeness and its socially sanctioned withdrawal from the swift pace of ordinary life. Unhastening Science offers a balanced and thoughtful argument which emphasises the dangers of cosseting science from the 'scourge' of internal competition while at the same time highlighting the need for 'distance' between th |
Titolo autorizzato: | Unhastening science |
ISBN: | 1-78138-697-8 |
1-84631-432-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454498003321 |
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