Author : Stephen H. Cutcliffe
Release : 2012-02-01
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 129/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Visions of STS by : Stephen H. Cutcliffe
Download or read book Visions of STS written by Stephen H. Cutcliffe. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visions of STS brings together the views of ten leading scholars to clarify the nature of Science, Technology, and Society Studies and point toward future developments. The interdisciplinary field of STS maps out the interconnected relationships among science, technology, and society in order to better understand both the innumerable benefits as well as problematic challenges. This book, rather than presenting science and technology as autonomous entities, analyzes each contextually as societal-mediated processes that reflect cultural, political, and economic values. It contains four basic programmatic essays that deal with technological determinism, the social constructivist view, STS and policy information, and the issue of interdisciplinarity. Visions of STS also stresses more specialized perspectives of work, education, and public policy analysis, and challenges the way STS itself is pursued. Taken together, these essays offer an exciting and unusually broad overview of STS.