ُScience and Culture: a Look at the Most Important Cultural Analysis in Sociology of Science and Technology

Rabbani, Ali; Maher, Zahra

doi:10.7508/ijcr.2012.17.003

ُScience and Culture: a Look at the Most Important Cultural Analysis in Sociology of Science and Technology

Document Type : Scientific Research Manuscript

Authors

Ali Rabbani ¹

Zahra Maher ²

¹ Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Isfahan

² Ph.D. Student of Sociology, University of Isfahan

10.7508/ijcr.2012.17.003

Abstract

Formerly most sociologists of science and technology did little to research in the formal literature of the Sociology of Culture and may even were resistant to cultural analysis. The sociologists of culture have also written little analysis on the process of knowledge and technology production. This is contrary to the basic characteristic of the new sociology of knowledge and science that is emphasis on culture and cultural analysis in science and technology studies. In this article, we trace and analyze how sociologists of science and technology have performed cultural analysis. More recent moves to extend studies of science and technology "outward" beyond formal scientific settings have created new possibilities for the sociology of culture. They have also attracted more attention to the place of culture in knowledge
and technology studies. Of these recent attempts are the studies on materialistic culture, scientific citizenship, macro - epistemic (culture in knowledge society), and finally civic epistemologies.

Keywords

Sociology of New Science

Science

Technology

Knowledge

Culture

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