Social Studies of Science and Technology: Looking Back, Ahead

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. The Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook: A Personal Retrospective

   1. The Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook: A Personal Retrospective

      • Richard Whitley

      Pages 1-8

3. STS and Society

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Sciences, Science Studies and Their Publics: Speculating on Future Relations

      • Ulrike Felt

      Pages 11-31

   3. Is That Politics?

      • Emilie Gomart, Maarten Hajer

      Pages 33-61

   4. Science and the Postmodern Shift in Contemporary Democracies

      • Yaron Ezrahi

      Pages 63-75

4. STS and the Social Sciences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 77-77

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   2. History of Social Science: Understanding Modernity and Rethinking Social Studies of Science

      • Björn Wittrock

      Pages 79-101

   3. The ‘Triple Helix’ and ‘New Production of Knowledge’ as Socio-Cognitive Fields

      • Terry Shinn

      Pages 103-116

   4. The Conundrum of Consciousness: Changing Landscapes of Knowledge at the Turn of the Millennium

      • Sabine Maasen

      Pages 117-153

   5. In a Constitutional Moment: Science and Social Order at the Millennium

      • Sheila Jasanoff

      Pages 155-180

5. STS — Emergence of a Field

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Growth, Differentiation, Expansion and Change of Identity — The Future of Science

      • Peter Weingart

      Pages 183-200

   3. Institutionalizing Science & Technology Studies in the Academy

      • Stephen Hilgartner

      Pages 201-210

   4. Prolepsis

      • Michael Hagner, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

      Pages 211-228

   5. Joy in Repetition Makes the Future Disappear

      • Michael Guggenheim, Helga Nowotny

      Pages 229-258

6. Postscript

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259

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   2. Reflections on the Millennium, Calendars, and the Gregorian Hegemony

      • Bernward Joerges

      Pages 261-291

7. Back Matter

   Pages 293-306

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BERNW ARD JOERGES AND HELGA NOWOTNY YET ANOTHER TURN The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that's most interesting. Richard Fcynman This volume was originally conceived as a contribution to yet another 'tum', not cap­ tured by one of the many adjectives that have served to describe the collective meander­ ing of the scholarly community in search of direction, It was meant to mark the millen­ nial turn, a seemingly purely chronological event, but one in search for great meanings and invested with loaded significances. The editors wanted to seize the opportunity of the moment in order to pause and reflect on the sociology and history of social studies of science and technology. The moment came and went and the new millennium, barely nine months later, thrust its historical marker upon the world through a horrendous and cruel shock in an unforeseen and unforeseeable way. Since then, the world appears more vulnerable and volatile, fragmented and fraught with uncertainty. The universal values as bequeathed by the Enlightenment are either refused or appear refuted. The dream of a universal civilization which has accompanied the unfolding of the existing multiple modernities in their historically unique trajectories, has been discarded and its promises in tatters.

• Institution
• history of science
• politics
• sociology
• technology

• Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Bernward Joerges

• ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switserland

  Helga Nowotny

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