How can we understand the intensifying interactions of science and society? It is the interdisciplinary field called science studies that provides us with a rich inventory of analytical approaches. They help us explore science as a practice, a subsystem, a culture, and an institution. Their joint observation: Science today is part and parcel of what has come to be known as 'knowledge society'. More than ever, knowledge production and consumption are in need of incessant monitoring and sophisticated reflection.Nine exemplary studies that inquire into, or are themselves examples of the dynamics of scientific knowledge, are included here: They cover issues as diverse as eugenics, climate research, and the role of historiography, and make use of different tools such as evolutionary reasoning, metaphor, and bibliometrics. Finally, they ponder the need for science to go public (PUS) as well as for society to regulate knowledge and to restructure universities as building blocks of our science system. Their joint message: Science studies can and should assume an active role in observing, reflecting, and communicating the intricate encounters of science and society today.
Introduction. Science Studies. Probing the Dynamics of Scientific KnowledgeSeiten 9 - 54 Sabine Maasen, Matthias Winterhager Download Kapitel (PDF)
Eugenics Looking at the Role of Science Anew. A Statistical Viewpoint on the Testing of Historical Hypotheses: The Case of EugenicsSeiten 55 - 70 Sabine Maasen, Matthias Winterhager Download Kapitel (PDF)
Humanities Inquiry Into the Growing Demand for Histories. Making SenseSeiten 71 - 84 Sabine Maasen, Matthias Winterhager Download Kapitel (PDF)
Bibliometrics Monitoring Emerging Fields. A Bibliometric Methodology for Exploring Interdisciplinary, ''Unorthodox'' Fields of Science. A Case Study of Environmental MedicineSeiten 85 - 122 Sabine Maasen, Matthias Winterhager Download Kapitel (PDF)
Science Policy Making Universities Cope with Science Today. German Universities on the Threshold of the Twenty-First CenturySeiten 123 - 144 Wilhelm Krull Download Kapitel (PDF)
Evolutionary Theory and the Social Sciences Increasingly a Mutual Exchange. Culture is Part of Human Biology. Why the Superorganic Concept Serves the Human Sciences BadlySeiten 145 - 178 Sabine Maasen, Matthias Winterhager Download Kapitel (PDF)
Climatology Innovative Research Strategies in a Dynamic Field. Making Ice Talk: Notes from a Participant Observer on Climate Research in AntarcticaSeiten 179 - 212 Sabine Maasen, Matthias Winterhager Download Kapitel (PDF)
Metaphors Moving Targets in the (Social) Sciences. Why Metaphor? Toward a Metaphorics of Scientific PracticeSeiten 213 - 234 Sabine Maasen, Matthias Winterhager Download Kapitel (PDF)
Science and the Public Pushing PUS with Science Studies. What Kind of ''Public Understanding of Science'' Programs Best Serve a Democracy?Seiten 235 - 256 Sabine Maasen, Matthias Winterhager Download Kapitel (PDF)
Knowledge Politics The Paradox of Regulating Knowledge Dynamics. Policing KnowledgeSeiten 257 - 290 Nico Stehr Download Kapitel (PDF)
