Counter-movements in the Sciences. - HILARY ROSE [EDS.].|NOWOTNY, HELGA
The Sociology of the Alternatives to Big Science
KORTE INHOUD
Heretical thoughts in an orthodox series on sociology of the sciences? Devils and science between the covers of one book? Games with ambivalence to mask collective uncertainty? We anticipate similar future reactions from readers or reviewers when assessing the way in which this volume has been assembled. But writings on counter-science, like the history of colonialism, are usually written by the winners, therefore unequivocally partial and only too often lacking in social imagination. In seeking to redress the balance, we admit to having been fully receptive to the latter, of having displayed an un measured degree of sympathy with heretics and outsiders, including practising scientists, and to letting science defend itself. The antithetical relationship implied in the volume's title - Counter-movements in the Sciences - stands for what we regard as an ongoing, open-ended process. In collecting material for this volume, we have brought together voices speaking from different quarters: there are those who, alth...
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Original publishers blue cloth hardback, silver title spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: xvi, 294pp., 13 contributions, biographical notes authors, notes, references, bibliography, general index. Firm copy. Volume 3: Sociology of the Sciences. Yearbook 1979. Dordrecht-Boston, D. Reidel Publishing Company. 1979 [Auteur: HILARY ROSE [EDS.]./NOWOTNY, HELGA] [Jaar: 1979] [Titel: Counter-movements in the Sciences.]
