Sarah R. Davies Science Societies (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Science SocietiesCondition: NewSubtitle: Resources for Life in a Technoscientific WorldEAN: 9781529228991ISBN: 9781529228991Publisher: Bristol University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/26/2024Description: 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?Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Sarah R. DaviesGenre: Science Nature & MathTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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