Deciphering Science and Technology: The Social Relations of Expertise (1st ed. 1990) (Explorations in Sociology.)
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- Synopsis
- As science and technology have pervaded modern life to an ever greater degree, social scientists have been led to find questions of the causes and consequences of 'expert' knowledge arising in places that would have been felt unlikely hitherto. Varcoe, McNeil and Yearley's book assembles nine exemplary studies by sociologists, each of which explores an aspect of the current scientific-technological 'revolution'. Some popular ideas are challenged. So, too, implicitly, are certain large-scale social scientific theories claiming to have discerned in science and technology an overall meaning.
- Copyright:
- 1990
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- ISBN-13:
- 9781349205202
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781137232465, 9781137104977, 9780333465547
- Publisher:
- Palgrave Macmillan UK, London
- Date of Addition:
- 02/17/21
- Copyrighted By:
- N/A
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science, Religion and Spirituality, Technology, Sociology
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Edited by:
- Maureen McNeil
- Edited by:
- Ian Varcoe
- Edited by:
- Steven Yearley
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