SOCI 325: Sociology of Science

Agenda

Public trust, participation,
& implicit values

  1. Technological determinism
    vs. anti-essentialism
  2. Public consumption of
    science
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Robert Moses, 1920s - 1970s 2018: bus full of over 40 high school students returning from the airport hit one of these Gov. Cuomo said he would put sensors in to prevent it in the future Also: interstates in chicago Also: automation and unions

Note: strongly compatible with X does not mean incompatible with Y

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implicit critiques over the next couple of weeks - TallBear (2013), Genomic articulations of indigeneity - Allen (2018), Strongly Participatory Science and Knowledge Justice in an Environmentally Contested Region - Harambam and Aupers (2015), Contesting epistemic authority: Conspiracy theories on the boundaries of science

- Scientists may use popular discourse as an alternative route - E.g. Dawkins' _Selfish Gene_, which steered popular and scientific understanding of evolution and genetics

E.g. Todd Akin in 2012 senate race in Missouri: "From what I understand from doctors, [pregancy resulting from rape is] really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."

e.g. cumbrian sheep farmers, or ACT UP - Assumption that scienctific knowledge is 'context free' - Same for dominant model - tie back to discussions of objectivity