Deciphering Science and Technology

The Social Relations of Expertise

Maureen Mcneil editor Ian Varcoe editor Steven Yearley editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:6th Feb '90

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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.

ISBN: 9780333465547

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 495g

256 pages