| Deciphering Science 1990 Edition Contributor(s): McNeil, Maureen (Editor), Varcoe, Ian (Editor), Yearley, Steven (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0333465547 ISBN-13: 9780333465547 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Science | Life Sciences - General - Technology & Engineering |
| Dewey: 303.483 |
| LCCN: 91190172 |
| Series: Explorations in Sociology. |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.09 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |