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Struggles over Legitimate Science
Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 2019 In several countries, national governments have implemented science policy reforms to elevate research excellence and to promote managerialist principles with an aim to gain success in the global knowledge-based economy.
Johanna Hokka
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The classical and modern sociology of knowledge: paradigm approach [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2019 There are discusses the classical and modern sociology of knowledge from the position of a paradigm approach in this article. The basis of the classical paradigm of the sociology of knowledge is the theory of social knowledge and the actions of K ...
N. V. Nikolina, A. E. Strelyaeva
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Distributed Cognition and the Task of Science [PDF]
, 2007 This paper gives a characterization of distributed cognition (d-cog) and explores ways that the framework might be applied in studies of science. I argue that a system can only be given a d-cog description if it is thought of as performing a task ...
Magnus, P. D.
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“All these worlds are yours except …”: Science Fiction and Folk Fictions at NASA
Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2019 Although they command real spacecraft exploring the solar system, NASA scientists refer frequently to science fiction in the course of their daily work. Fluency with the Star Trek series and other touchstone works demonstrates membership in broader geek ...
Janet Vertesi
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The epistemic predicament of a pseudoscience: social constructivism confronts Freudian psychoanalysis [PDF]
, 2011 Social constructivist approaches to science have often been dismissed as inaccurate accounts of scientific knowledge. In this paper, we take the claims of robust social constructivism seriously and attempt to find a theory which does instantiate the ...
Boudry, Maarten, Buekens, Filip
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescent siblings of children with cancer are at elevated risk for psychosocial problems. Unfortunately, various barriers such as limited family time and resources, conflicting schedules, and psychosocial staffing constraints at cancer centers hinder sibling access to support.
Christina M. Amaro +10 more
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Weber's understanding of epistemological and methodological foundations of social sciences and sociology [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u PrištiniSince the formation of sociology as a separate science during the first half of the 19th century, some of the most important questions that sociologists have attempted to answer have been what the cognitive possibilities of sociology as a science are and
Mandić Stefan V.
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Suppressed Subjectivity and Truncated Tradition: A Reply to Pablo Schyfter [PDF]
, 2018 Author's response to: Pablo Schyfter, 'Inaccurate Ambitions and Missing Methodologies: Thoughts on Jeff Kochan and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge,' Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 8 (2018): 8-14.
Kochan, Jeff
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Aging and Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As global populations age, cancer is increasingly becoming a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). Despite accounting for the majority of new cancer cases and deaths, older individuals remain underrepresented in cancer research, clinical guidelines, and health ...
Ibrahim Bidemi Abdullateef +2 more
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The Very Being of a Conceptual Scheme: Disciplinary and Conceptual Critiques [PDF]
, 2018 Book review of: Jeff Kochan (2017), Science as Social Existence: Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific ...
Riggio, Adam
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