Unhastening science : autonomy and reflexivity in the social theory of knowledge / Dick Pels.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in social and political thought ; 7.Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2003Description: 1 online resource (274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781781386972 (ebook)
- 306.4/5 22
- HM651 .P45 2003
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This book offers a new account of what makes science special among other human pursuits, critically engaging with a variety of approaches, especially constructivist and relativist studies of science and technology. It focuses on the studied 'lack of haste' of science, its relative stress-freeness and its socially sanctioned withdrawal from the swift pace of ordinary life. Unhastening Science offers a balanced and thoughtful argument which emphasises the dangers of cosseting science from the 'scourge' of internal competition while at the same time highlighting the need for 'distance' between the process of scientific thought and the faster machinery of politics, business, sports, and the media.
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