Research in Science and Technology Studies (Knowledge and Society)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: July 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780762308903
Subjects: Impact of science & technology on society; Technology: General Issues; Technology; Science/Mathematics; Scientific Methodology And Research; Technology Transfer; Science; Medical / Nursing; Nanotechnology; General; Research; Sociology - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Research & Methodology
First sentence: If Science and Technology Studies (STS) - like cultural studies, a "tendency across disciplines" (Miller, 2001, p. 1) - has achieved anything in the 30 or so years of its existence, it is an enhanced awareness of the practices by which "universals" are made.