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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Sociology of science"”.
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Rethinking scientific literacy standards
This thesis explores some of the implications of contemporary science studies for current science education reforms. The scientific literacy effort proposed by Project 2061 is described and criticized with regard to its educational and philosophical commitments. It is argued that a number of …
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Ludwik Fleck and his concept of a scientific fact
In this thesis, I explore the concept of a scientific fact through the work of Polish physician Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961). Fleck has had an alleged influence upon contemporary philosophy of science, primarily through the work of Thomas Kuhn with subsequent echoes from the direction of the sociology …
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All the Science That Is Fit to Blog: An Analysis of Science Blogging Practices
This dissertation examines science blogging practices, including motivations, routines and content decision rules, across a wide range of science bloggers. Previous research has largely failed to investigate science blogging practices from science bloggers’ perspective or to establish a …
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Bodies of information : reinventing bodies and practice in medical education
This dissertation recounts the development of graphic models of human bodies and virtual reality simulators for teaching anatomy and surgery to medical students, residents, and physicians. It considers how researchers from disciplinary cultures in medicine, engineering, and computer programming …
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Prospects for a cognitive science of science
Cognitive science of science attempts to explain a range of phenomena familiar to philosophers of science, such as theory choice and scientific discovery. The appeal to cognitive science may be seen as an attempt to naturalize the philosophy of science. I examine and criticize several of the most …
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Three Essays at the Intersection of Social Theory and Political Economy
This study revisits classic questions of political economy through an interdisciplinary lens, wedding the insights of modern social theory with heterodox political economy. The first chapter synthesizes the economic and sociological literature on wage determination, developing a conceptual …
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Representing science in the UK news media: ‘Life on Mars?’, cell nucleus replacement and Gulf War syndrome
This thesis addresses contemporary debates in the sociology of science, the sociology of media and the public understanding of science by examining the UK television and print media coverage of three substantive scientific issues. The first case study follows the debate as to whether a Martian …
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Making evidence, making legitimacy : the introduction of HPV (Human Papillomavirus) vaccines in Colombia
… and untreated infection with specific types of Human Papillomavirus (HPV). There are currently two vaccines which protect against the HPV types associated with 70% of cervical cancers. In 2013 the Colombian government introduced Gardasil® (Merck’s HPV vaccine) into the Colombian Expanded …
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Organic farming: science and ideology in a technological dispute
… or “conventional” farming on a number of planes—political, ideological, scientific. The empirical thrust is to investigate the extent ideology might be an explanatory factor.</p> <p>Chapter I sets the background for the dissertation. Employing the concepts of the sociology of knowledge …
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Fieldwork/fieldwalking: Art, sauntering and science in the "walking country"
… a contemporary art project exploring practices of walking and science in the field. 11 explores the themes of walking and-fieldwork in art, and as art. Whilst the. sociology of science in the laboratory has been well theorised, less has been said about the field in the natural sciences. And, …
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Genomic Designation: New kinds of people at the intersection of genetics, medicine and social action
… conditions - it can create new ones. The social sciences have assumed that genetics must work in and through existing categories of human difference in order to inform clinical practice or social mobilization. By contrast, I go beyond the specter of reductionism and examine the emergence of new …
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An evaluation of inter-organisational identity theft knowledge sharing practice in the UK retail sector
Knowledge is an essential source of competitive advantage in modern society and is particularly important in the current on-line environment due to increased business interactions throughout the world. Knowledge sharing initiatives taken by organisations to improve technicalities to tackle cyber …
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Between Technophilia, Cold War and Rationality: A Social and Cultural History of Digital Art
… that to work with computers was akin to a ‘kiss of death’. According to him, as a result of sheer prejudice, the majority of people in the art world did not acknowledge such artworks as interesting, valid or important. Although recurrent in the literature concerned with such art, Brown’s claims …
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Temporal Evolution of Scholarly Communication
The general topic of the dissertation is citation network dynamics. I employ two perspectives on the evolution of citation networks in order to extend our understanding of the context of scientific progress. The first two sections develop a general mechanism to predict how papers gain attention and …
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Noodle, Noodle, Cat: Extra-Subjective Agency in Web-based Art practice
This research investigates the complexities of artistic authorship under the production conditions of the web. It is driven by a fascination with the possibilities of expanding the authorial sphere of the artwork to include the productive capacities of other subjectivities, entities and processes. …
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The problem of connectivity: A sociological study of the problem of connectedness of nationally produced science and national needs in Saudi Arabia
This study is to investigate the problem of connectivity between nationally produced science and national needs. It is a collective case study of two academic departments within Saudi academia, the departments of petroleum engineering at Alpha and Beta Universities. The rationale for using these …
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Territorial Violence and Design, 1950-2010: A Human-Computer Study of Personal Space and Chatbot Interaction
Personal space is a human’s imaginary system of precaution and an important concept for exploring territoriality, but between humans and technology because machinic agencies transfer, relocate, enact and reenact territorially. Literatures of territoriality, violence and affect are uniquely brought …
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Naturalism & Objectivity: Methods and Meta-methods
… statistical account provides a basic account of evidence and inference. Formally, the approach is a re-interpretation of standard frequentist (Fisherian, Neyman-Pearson) statistics. Informally, it gives an account of inductive inference based on arguing from error, an analog of frequentist …