Feminist Philosophies of Science: The Social and Contextual Nature of Science

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nature Of Science ◽  
The Social

The harms of ignoring the social nature of science

Synthese ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 196 (1) ◽  
pp. 355-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Social Nature ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Science and technology: socialising what for whom?

2009 ◽  
Vol 08 (03) ◽  
pp. C03 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Alternative Model ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Organize Structure ◽  
Technological Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Points Of View

In the Handbook on the socialisation of scientific and technological research, edited by Wiebe Bijker and Luciano d’Andrea, ‘socialisation’ is used to both describe and prescribe the ways in which science and technology are used in society. In this comment, ‘socialisation’ is discussed from two other points of view. First, the ways in which science and technology are sometimes used to organize, structure and dominate the social are identified. Second, drawing on Merton’s norms of science, an argument is made against over-socialising science and in favour of acknowledging and preserving the ‘special’ nature of science, for its own sake and because, at its best, science can offer an alternative model for other social activities.

scholarly journals Looking at the Social Aspects of Nature of Science in Science Education Through a New Lens

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 457-478 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sila Kaya ◽  
Sibel Erduran ◽  
Naomi Birdthistle ◽  
Orla McCormack
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Epistemology of Science, Science Literacy, and the Demarcation Criterion: The Nature of Science (NOS) and Informing Science (IS) in Context

10.28945/2457 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Castelao-Lawless
Keyword(s):  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Demarcation Criterion ◽  
Scientific Objectivity ◽  
Epistemology Of Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
The Media ◽  
Course Format

The result of misunderstanding science by students is their inability as future citizens to impact science public policies. The solution argued last year included creating courses in science studies serving two purposes: destroy students’ stereotypical certainties about science and help them become “historical realists” in regard to scientific practices. But we also speculated that dismissing the myth of scientific objectivity and teaching the historical and sociological underpinnings of science might lead to turning students into epistemological relativists. We now have a solution to the social-constructivist trap stemming from studies of science. This paper inquires into American contexts such as scientific illiteracy, post-modernism in high schools and colleges, and the media, all of which help produce a generalized inability to demarcate science from pseudoscience. Science studies courses guide students into both making epistemological distinctions and understanding the nature of science. Informing methodologies, course format, and bibliography follow.

A Model for Mind-Device Dialectic and the Future of Advertising in the Social Media Age

2018 ◽  
pp. 735-751
Author(s):  
Recep Yilmaz ◽  
Nurdan Oncel Taskiran
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Human Mind ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Water Mill ◽  
The Way

Every advertisement text has a specific impact on the mind of receivers. Just like a water-mill or wind mill, human mind develops a specific systematic interaction against different advertisement texts. This section focuses on how information presented and carried by different texts are built on human mind. The basic aim is to reveal how advertisement texts operate human mind. In this sense, the authors try to understand the impact of analogue media on our minds through discussing the nature of science, the way human mind operates, and the structure of mass communication means. On top of that, the authors visualize this interaction on a model. This model would not only make it possible for us to understand our interaction with analogue media but also would give clues about digital media. With these clues, it would be possible to make predictions about changing advertising environment, and accordingly the way of making more effective strategies and future of advertising sector.

The Transformation of Science in the XX Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Alexander L. Nikiforov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Professional Orientation ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Task ◽  
Understanding Of Science ◽  
Century Science

The first part of the article examines the views on the nature of science and the activities of the scientists, on a role of science in the life of society, expressed in the works of the greatest scientists of the late-early 20th centuries – E. Mach, A. Poincare and M. Weber. It is shown that certain differences in the understanding of science and its development between these thinkers were due to their professional orientation. While Mach and Poincare, speaking of science, had in mind, above all, a mathematized natural science, Weber focused on the social sciences, which were only at the beginning of their development. The second part of the article shows that during the twentieth century science experienced a significant transformation, which was due to three interrelated factors. First, research has become widely funded by business and government. Secondly, large scientific teams come to take the place of single scientists, whose members perform only narrow-specific functions in solving a scientific task. Finally, business and the state orient science toward solving applied problems, i.e. to develop new technical devices. As a result, the main goal of scientific activity is not the search for truth, but the improvement of technology, new knowledge is only a by-product of technical progress.

scholarly journals Romeu Beltrão e o Boletim do Instituto de Ciências Naturais

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. e4
Author(s):  
Elgion Lucio da Silva Loreto ◽  
Karen Costa Soldi
Keyword(s):  
Nature Of Science ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
High School Teacher ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Santa Maria

The Bulletin of the Institute of Natural Sciences of the Federal University of Santa Maria was a scientific journal, pub lished between 1962 and 1968. It represented a vehicle for research carried out at the Institute of Natural Sciences of the newly created Federal University of Santa Maria. The articles published addressed mainly the phytogeography and paleontology of the region. The main contributor and mentor of the journal was Prof. Romeu Beltrão, man of multiple interests. He was a doctor, historian, high school teacher, professor, writer, botanist, paleontologist. The pioneering "Bulletin" is discussed within the evolution of research and pos-graduate studies at the university in which it arises. We also discussed the potential of this material to address the Nature of Science, and how scientific development is tied to the social and historical conditions in which it is embedded.

scholarly journals Redes de Sociabilidade como estratégia para o ensino de ciências

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
Kelly Regina Silva Campos Reversi ◽  
Luiz Felipe Campos Reversi ◽  
Ana Maria De Andrade Caldeira ◽  
João José Caluzi
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Bcg Vaccine ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Neutral Activity ◽  
Externalist Approach

Resumo Existe uma crença comum entre os estudantes e até mesmo entre professores de que a ciência é uma busca solitária e que as idéias aparecem espontaneamente na mente dos cientistas. Esta é uma percepção estereotipada sobre a natureza da Ciência que procuramos superar mostrando as pesquisas de Albert Calmette (1863 - 1933), em parceria com Camille Guérin (1872 - 1961), sobre o desenvolvimento da vacina BCG utilizando uma Rede de Sociabilidade elaborada por nós, uma vez que a História da Ciência pode contribuir para o entendimento dos processos e mecanismos pelos quais a ciência é elaborada. Organizamos as contribuições de Albert Calmette, no período de 1905 a 1933, para o desenvolvimento da vacina BCG. Para tanto, utilizamos os trabalhos originais publicados por ele. Nestes trabalhos, mostramos controvérsias e diálogos com outros pesquisadores, integrando uma abordagem internalista e externalista da História da Ciência, fazendo uma discussão dos conceitos científicos em seus trabalhos e as influências sociais, econômicas e políticas no respectivo contexto histórico. É possível observar como a interação com outros estudos e ideias do período orientaram as pesquisas de Calmette. A Rede de Sociabilidade pode ajudar os alunos a superar suas visões deformadas da Ciência, como as supracitadas e outras, dentre elas a de que a ciência é uma atividade neutra e que os conhecimentos científicos são sempre construções lineares.Palavras-chave: Rede de Sociabilidade, História da Ciência, Ensino de Ciências Abstract There is a common belief among students and even among theachers that science is a solitary pursuit and that ideas appear spontaneously in the minds of scientists. This is a stereotyped perception about the nature of Science that we seek to overcome by presentig the researches of Albert Calmette (1863-1933), in partnership with Camille Guérin (1872-1961), on the development of the BCG vaccine using a Sociability Network developed by us , since the History of Science can contribute to the understanding of the processes and mechanisms by which science is elaborated. We organized the contributions of Albert Calmette, from 1905 to 1933, for the development of the BCG vaccine. For this purpose, we used the original papers published by him. In these papers, we show controversies and dialogues with other researchers, integrating an internalist and externalist approach to the History of Science, by doing a discussion of the scientific concepts within his papers and the social, economical and political influences in the respective Historical context. It is possible to observe how the interaction with other studies and ideas of the period had oriented Calmette's researches. The Sociability Network can help students overcome their deformed views of science, such as those above mentioned, including that science is a neutral activity and that scientific knowledge is always a linear constructs. Keywords: Sociability Network, History of Science, Science teaching

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