Title: What have we learned about science and technology from the Russian experience?
First published: 1998
Description: The author believes that the Russian example reveals in detail both the strengths and the weaknesses of social constructivism. Though many areas of Russian science show the unmistakable influence of social factors, the deviation of the Soviet Union from standard genetics for many years, followed by its eventual restoration, indicates the weakness of social constructivism and illustrates the relationship of science to reality.

He further maintains that although science in Russia has been terribly abused, it nonetheless remains strong; it has proven to be much more resilient than most previous observers believed, and, furthermore, is not nearly as directly dependent on political freedom for its vitality as Western analysts maintained.
Subjects: Constructivism (Philosophy), History, Science, Social aspects, Social aspects of Science, Social aspects of Technology, Technology, Science, social aspects, Science, history, Science, russia (federation), Technology, social aspects, Technology, history, soviet union, Sociology
Places: Russia (Federation)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: Q175.5 .G73 1998