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Re-thinking science : knowledge and the public in an age of uncertainty

Title
Re-thinking science : knowledge and the public in an age of uncertainty / Helga Nowotny, Peter Scott, Michael Gibbons.
Author
Nowotny, Helga.
Publication
Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Scott, Peter, 1946-
  • Gibbons, Michael, 1939-
Description
ix, 278 pages; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Rethinking science
Subject
  • Science > Social aspects
  • Knowledge, Sociology of
  • Communication in science
  • Science > sociology
  • Science > philsophy
  • Knowledge
  • sociology of knowledge
  • Forschung
  • Gesellschaft
  • Wissenschaft
  • Wissenssoziologie
  • Wetenschappen
  • Wetenschapsbeleid
  • Sociale aspecten
  • Sciences > Aspect social
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-269) and index.
Contents
The transformation of society -- Beyond modernity: breaching the frontiers -- The co-evolution of society and science -- The context speaks back -- The transformation of knowledge institutions -- The role of universities in knowledge production -- How does contextualization happen? -- Weakly contextualized knowledge -- Strongly contextualized knowledge -- Contextualization of the middle range -- From reliable knowledge to socially robust knowledge -- The epistemological core -- Science moves into the Agora -- Socially distributed expertise -- Re-visioning science -- Re-thinking science is not science re-thought.
ISBN
  • 0745626076
  • 9780745626079
  • 0745626084
  • 9780745626086
LCCN
9780745626086
OCLC
  • ocm46687537
  • 46687537
  • SCSB-1207329
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library