| Description |
1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Studies in social and political thought ; 7
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Studies in social and political thought ; 7.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1: The Timescape of Science; 2: What (Again) is So Special about Science?; 3: Two Traditions in the Social Theory of Knowledge; 4: The Natural Proximity of Facts and Values; 5: Knowledge Politics and Anti-Politics: Bourdieu on Science and Intellectuals; 6: The Politics of Symmetry; 7: Reflexivity: One Step Up; 8: Intellectual Autonomy and the Politics of Slow Motion; Epilogue: Weak Social Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
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 th. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Knowledge, Sociology of. |
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Science -- Social aspects.
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Science -- Social aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pels, Dick, 1948- Unhastening science. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2003 0853236380 9780853236382 (DLC) 2004271679 (OCoLC)51108831 |
| ISBN |
9781846314322 (electronic book) |
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1846314321 (electronic book) |
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9780853236382 |
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0853236380 |
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0853235988 (paperback) |
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