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Deciphering Science and Technology: The Social Relations of Expertise

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Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Number of pages256
Edition1st
ISBN (Electronic)9781349205202
ISBN (Print)9780333465547
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 Feb 1990

Publication series

NameExplorations in Sociology
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • automation
  • biotechnology
  • industry
  • innovation
  • knowledge
  • research
  • science
  • sociology
  • technology
  • trade
  • trade unions

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