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Under pressure: The extent and distribution of perceived pressure among scientists in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
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David Johann and others
Research Evaluation, Volume 31, Issue 3, July 2022, Pages 385–409, https://doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvac014
Published: 21 June 2022
... grants science studies performance-based funding Germany Austria Switzerland Swiss National Science Foundation 10.13039/501100001711 SNSF 10.13039/501100001711 SNSF Starting Grant “CONCISE” BSSGI0_155981 Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] . © The Author(s...
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The Brain and Causality: How the Brain Becomes an Individual-Level Cause of Illness
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Michael Halpin
Social Problems, Volume 69, Issue 2, May 2022, Pages 510–526, https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaa030
Published: 08 September 2020
...Michael Halpin neuroscience psychiatry individual differences science studies mental illness How are individual-level explanations applied to social issues? In the social sciences, numerous scholars have interrogated individualistic explanations of economic, racial, and gender disparities (e.g...
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Knowledge and values: A re-entanglement in epistemic regimes
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Christian J Feldbacher-Escamilla
Science and Public Policy, Volume 47, Issue 1, February 2020, Pages 67–77, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scz047
Published: 05 November 2019
... forms of knowledge gathering and production, whereas traditional notions established in science studies like that of a paradigm or a research programme focus on traditional scientific forms of knowledge production only. In this article, we investigate this re-entangling of knowledge...
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Magnetologists on the Beat: The Epistemology of Science Journalism Reconsidered
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J Scott Brennen
Communication Theory, Volume 28, Issue 4, November 2018, Pages 424–443, https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qty001
Published: 18 April 2018
... University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract Drawing together recent scholarship in journalism studies, the philosophy of science, and science studies, this article offers a new...
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Resilient science: The civic epistemology of disaster risk reduction
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Amy Donovan and Clive Oppenheimer
Science and Public Policy, Volume 43, Issue 3, June 2016, Pages 363–374, https://doi.org/10.1093/scipol/scv039
Published: 19 August 2015
...Amy Donovan; Clive Oppenheimer *Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: [email protected] 2015 Abstract In this paper, we use insights from science studies to elucidate...
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Reassembling and Dissecting: International Relations Practice from a Science Studies Perspective
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Christian Büger and Frank Gadinger
International Studies Perspectives, Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2007, Pages 90–110, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1528-3585.2007.00271.x
Published: 09 January 2007
.... In our conclusion, we stress how the perspective developed might help us to leave old and often unproductive questions and can prompt new promising ones. As we sketch in section three, such a heuristic can be drawn from science studies, although a revision of some of the current assumptions is necessary...
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The rise (and decline) of American regional science: lessons for the new economic geography?
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Trevor J. Barnes
Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 4, Issue 2, April 2004, Pages 107–129, https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/4.2.107
Published: 01 April 2004
... extent its decline. The interpretative framework derives from science studies, and in particular the work of Bruno Latour. The history is based on archival material and interviews. The second is to speculate brie¯y on the implications of both the interpretive framework used in the paper, and the history...
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Loss of Trust in Experts: Earthquakes, Dams, and Well Collapses
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Shiju Sam Varughese
Published: 16 February 2017
... scientific citizen public scientists trust public Centre for Earth Science Studies CESS dam break dam s discourse risk Gujarat earthquake the Idukki arch dam journalists Kerala State Electricity Board KSEB Melukavu micro tremors Kerala Mullaperiyar dam issue Richter scale risk s seismic...
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Future
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Rebekah Sheldon
Published: 15 June 2016
... Scranton Roy Russ Joanna Queer theory Environmentalism Media Literature Science fiction criticism Feminist science studies Biopolitics Biotechnology An absolute missile does not abolish chance. jacques derrida , “No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Seven Missiles, Seven Missives...
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Introduction: Beyond Imported Magic
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Eden Medina and others
Published: 30 September 2014
... science studies and Latin American studies. Such concepts, the introduction suggests, allow the field to formulate and incorporate new ideas and knowledge about how Latin American peoples, countries, cultures, and environments create, adapt, and use science and technology. The chapter reviews the book’s...
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Blaming the brain
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David Wastell and Sue White
Published: 15 March 2017
... psychiatry twin studies developmental disorders brain networks genetics science studies technology studies myth of the missing genes In the age of the existential vacuum … pathology results not only from stress but from release of stress which ends in emptiness … Like iron filings in a magnetic field...
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The Third Wave and Populism: Scientific Expertise as a Check and Balance
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Harry Collins and others
Published: 20 April 2023
...This chapter draws on the Third Wave of Science Studies to argue that science is needed to resist the rise of populism in modern democracies. Wave Three of science studies focuses on expertise and values to characterize science as “craftwork with integrity” and justify science’s centrality...
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Published: 01 June 2001
... of science and technology. The debate has largely been initiated by natural scientists who have written books and made public statements critical of science studies and what they take to be some of its central ideas. The idea of the two cultures was made famous by C. P. Snow in the 1950s. It has come...
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Life Inside a Case Study
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Peter R. Saulson
Published: 01 June 2001
... physical scientist scientific work natural world social structure science studies formula It's been just my luck to live my entire scientific career inside a case study. I'm a gravitational wave physicist. Since I finished graduate school in 1981, I've been engaged in the search for gravitational...
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From Social Construction to Questions for Research: The Promise of the Sociology of Science
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Kenneth G. Wilson
Published: 01 June 2001
... truth science studies The “science wars” controversy is sometimes presented as an “either-or” conflict: either scientific knowledge is culturally specific (as some social scientists claim) or it is truth and free of cultural contamination (as some scientists claim). But we believe in a middle ground...
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Awakening a Sleeping Giant?
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Jay A. Labinger
Published: 01 June 2001
... of science studies so that they can better defend against the dangers posed by the “antiscience brigades.” In contrast, calls for positive engagements have been rather rare even on the part of science studies practitioners, who one might think would have a strong interest in enlisting allies...
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Reclaiming Responsibility
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Jane Gregory
Published: 01 June 2001
... constructionism science studies public understanding truth Bricmont Sokal sponsorship Bricmont and Sokal's [3] juxtaposition of Benveniste's controversial work on the memory of water as an experiment in need of replication and homeopathy as a pseudoscience in need of empirical demonstration is interesting...
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Confessions of a Believer
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Peter R. Saulson
Published: 01 June 2001
... common attitude would be that science studies, postmodernism, and what passes for the left on campus are all one big mess. Even so, few scientists care strongly enough about their politics to explain the anger behind the actions in the science wars. final theory miracles religion and science...
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Published: 01 June 2001
... function science studies can serve for scientists is that of “defamiliarization”—to borrow a term from the literary theorists—to deflect the mind out of the deeply worn ruts of standard thinking, even if only for a little while. There is need to go beyond the textbook model of science; science's...
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Species Don’t Exist: Theorizing Life Forms
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John Hartigan
Published: 27 October 2017
... zoologists developmental processes selfing behavior Doñana National Park intimate knowledge assemblage Haraway Donna Helmreich Stefan representation Tsing Anna breeding race care Cracraft Joel nonhumans Multispecies plants nonhumans ethnography race science studies taxonomy biodiversity “We...
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