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Re-thinking science : knowledge and the public in an age of uncertainty / Helga Nowotny, Peter Scott, Michael Gibbons.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Malden, MA : Polity ; Published in the USA by Blackwell, 2001Description: ix, 278 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0745626084
  • 9780745626086
  • 0745626076
  • 9780745626079
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.483
Contents:
Preface -- 1. The Transformation of Society -- 2. Beyond Modernity - Breaching the Frontiers -- 3. The Co-Evolution of Society and Science -- 4. The Context Speaks Back -- 5. The Transformation of Knowledge Institutions -- 6. The Role of Universities in Knowledge Production -- 7. How Does Contextualization Happen? -- 8. Weakly Contextualized Knowledge -- 9. Strongly Contextualized Knowledge -- 10. Contextualization of the Middle Range -- 11. From Reliable Knowledge to Socially Robust Knowledge -- 12. The Epistemological Core -- 13. Science Moves into the Agora -- 14. Socially Distributed Expertise -- 15. Re-Visioning Science -- 16. Re-Thinking Science is not Science Re-Thought -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-269) and index.

Preface -- 1. The Transformation of Society -- 2. Beyond Modernity - Breaching the Frontiers -- 3. The Co-Evolution of Society and Science -- 4. The Context Speaks Back -- 5. The Transformation of Knowledge Institutions -- 6. The Role of Universities in Knowledge Production -- 7. How Does Contextualization Happen? -- 8. Weakly Contextualized Knowledge -- 9. Strongly Contextualized Knowledge -- 10. Contextualization of the Middle Range -- 11. From Reliable Knowledge to Socially Robust Knowledge -- 12. The Epistemological Core -- 13. Science Moves into the Agora -- 14. Socially Distributed Expertise -- 15. Re-Visioning Science -- 16. Re-Thinking Science is not Science Re-Thought -- References -- Index.

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