Even if in the perspective of the Science and Technology Studies (STS) approach the distinction between science and society has to be abandoned, scientific laboratories still remain an interesting point of observation in order to understand what is going on in science and in society. Using some paradisgmatic cases, this paper tries to show both how science is shaping the social environment as a laboratory and hoe social processes are continuosly implied in the construction of scientific knowledge. Special attention is devoted to the role played in these processes by scientific instruments and in general by machines. The "ubiquitous machines" make science possible, society organized and both of them mutually compatible.
Dentro e fuori dal laboratorio. Trasformazioni della tecnoscienza e analisi sociologica
NERESINI, FEDERICO
2008
Abstract
Even if in the perspective of the Science and Technology Studies (STS) approach the distinction between science and society has to be abandoned, scientific laboratories still remain an interesting point of observation in order to understand what is going on in science and in society. Using some paradisgmatic cases, this paper tries to show both how science is shaping the social environment as a laboratory and hoe social processes are continuosly implied in the construction of scientific knowledge. Special attention is devoted to the role played in these processes by scientific instruments and in general by machines. The "ubiquitous machines" make science possible, society organized and both of them mutually compatible.
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