Martin Weinel
Biographic Data
| ID | 258728 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Weinel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Weinel |
| SIGNATURE | WEINEL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1831-5978 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
"Green skills" and the emergent property of “greening”
This article offers critical analysis of the concept of “green skills" as part of policies designed to support green transition. We argue that it is unhelpful to focus on (definitions and narrow sets of) “green skills", as opposed to conceptualising the emergent properties of social systems which result in “greening” i.e. the incorporation of policies and practices in various societal domains, which comprise measurable reduced environmental impac…
Evaluating the imitation game as a method for comparative research
The Imitation Game is a new method and, as such, it is important to show that its results are plausible and replicable. We tested this by conducting Imitation Games on religion in a range of European countries, returning approximately 12 months later to repeat the research. The idea was that non-Christian members of strongly Christian countries would find it easy to pass as members of the practicing majority because Christian beliefs and practice…
Experts and the Will of the People
The rise of populism in the West has led to attacks on the legitimacy of scientific expertise in political decision making. This book explores the differences between populism and pluralist democracy and their relationship with science. Pluralist democracy is characterised by respect for minority choices and a system of checks and balances that prevents power being concentrated in one group, while populism treats minorities as traitorous so as to…
A safer, faster, leaner workplace? Technical‐maintenance worker perspectives on digital drone technology ‘effects’ in the European steel industry
This paper focuses on technical‐maintenance worker perspectives on the insertion of digitised drone technologies in the European steel industry. The industry is aiming for a ‘business model transformation’ by means of digitalisation, which includes the use of drone technologies for maintenance functions. In this paper, we explore on what basis might such workers embrace or resist this new technology. Drawing on data from a project investigating t…
The Third Wave in Science and Technology Studies
The Third Wave in Science and Technology Studies
Groups and individuals
The nature and role of social groups is a central tension in sociology. On the one hand, the idea of a group enables sociologists to locate and describe individuals in terms of characteristics that are shared with others. On the other, emphasizing the fluidity of categories such as gender or ethnicity undermines their legitimacy as ways of classifying people and, by extension, the legitimacy of categorization as a goal of sociological research. I…
Connective knowledge
This paper centralises the question of what academics in higher education settings need to know about other fields to stimulate cross-disciplinary collaborative work. The concept of ‘knowledge’, while recognised as important within cross-disciplinary studies, has failed to be properly problematized. Little attention has been paid to what cross-disciplinary knowledge actors should possess, the purposes that knowledge might serve and few pause to c…
HIV/Aids and political controversies in modern South Africa
STS as science or politics
In a recent editorial for this journal, Sergio Sismondo makes two claims. First, he states that STS bears no responsibility for the emergence of post-truth politics. Second, he claims that debates about the nature of expertise that take place within STS are irrelevant in this context. In contrast, we argue that, whether or not STS had a causal influence on the emergence of post-truth politics, there is a clear resonance between the two positions …
Expertise revisited, Part II
The Imitation Game and the Nature of Mixed Methods
We describe the Imitation Game, a new research method that collects both qualitative and quantitative data, and which can be used as a mixed methods procedure in many disciplines. Drawing on two projects, one investigating gender, the other sexuality, we show that the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the Game combine in four different ways, from more quantitative to more qualitative, involving increasing cultural understanding by the resea…
Object and shadow
The very stuff of academic life is debate and we sincerely thank our critics for taking the time to consider our work. In the way of things we are going to be robust in our responses but we have fo
The politics and policy of the Third Wave
We outline the political implications of the program known as the ‘Third Wave of Science Studies’. Here we develop the politics of the Third Wave showing how it bears on technological decision-making in the public domain. The main concern is to combat ‘technological populism’. The prescriptions that emerge include asking and answering as many technical questions as is reasonable and giving these questions and answers the maximum exposure before m…
Primary source knowledge and technical decision-making
The politics and policy of the Third Wave
We outline the political implications of the program known as the ‘Third Wave of Science Studies’. Here we develop the politics of the Third Wave showing how it bears on technological decision-making in the public domain. The main concern is to combat ‘technological populism’. The prescriptions that emerge include asking and answering as many technical questions as is reasonable and giving these questions and answers the maximum exposure before m…
The Imitation Game and the Nature of Mixed Methods
We describe the Imitation Game, a new research method that collects both qualitative and quantitative data, and which can be used as a mixed methods procedure in many disciplines. Drawing on two projects, one investigating gender, the other sexuality, we show that the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the Game combine in four different ways, from more quantitative to more qualitative, involving increasing cultural understanding by the resea…
Primary source knowledge and technical decision-making
Expertise revisited, Part II
A safer, faster, leaner workplace? Technical‐maintenance worker perspectives on digital drone technology ‘effects’ in the European steel industry
This paper focuses on technical‐maintenance worker perspectives on the insertion of digitised drone technologies in the European steel industry. The industry is aiming for a ‘business model transformation’ by means of digitalisation, which includes the use of drone technologies for maintenance functions. In this paper, we explore on what basis might such workers embrace or resist this new technology. Drawing on data from a project investigating t…
Evaluating the imitation game as a method for comparative research
The Imitation Game is a new method and, as such, it is important to show that its results are plausible and replicable. We tested this by conducting Imitation Games on religion in a range of European countries, returning approximately 12 months later to repeat the research. The idea was that non-Christian members of strongly Christian countries would find it easy to pass as members of the practicing majority because Christian beliefs and practice…
Groups and individuals
The nature and role of social groups is a central tension in sociology. On the one hand, the idea of a group enables sociologists to locate and describe individuals in terms of characteristics that are shared with others. On the other, emphasizing the fluidity of categories such as gender or ethnicity undermines their legitimacy as ways of classifying people and, by extension, the legitimacy of categorization as a goal of sociological research. I…
Object and shadow
The very stuff of academic life is debate and we sincerely thank our critics for taking the time to consider our work. In the way of things we are going to be robust in our responses but we have fo
Primary source knowledge and technical decision-making
The politics and policy of the Third Wave
We outline the political implications of the program known as the ‘Third Wave of Science Studies’. Here we develop the politics of the Third Wave showing how it bears on technological decision-making in the public domain. The main concern is to combat ‘technological populism’. The prescriptions that emerge include asking and answering as many technical questions as is reasonable and giving these questions and answers the maximum exposure before m…
Object and shadow
The very stuff of academic life is debate and we sincerely thank our critics for taking the time to consider our work. In the way of things we are going to be robust in our responses but we have fo
The Imitation Game and the Nature of Mixed Methods
We describe the Imitation Game, a new research method that collects both qualitative and quantitative data, and which can be used as a mixed methods procedure in many disciplines. Drawing on two projects, one investigating gender, the other sexuality, we show that the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the Game combine in four different ways, from more quantitative to more qualitative, involving increasing cultural understanding by the resea…
Expertise revisited, Part II
HIV/Aids and political controversies in modern South Africa
STS as science or politics
In a recent editorial for this journal, Sergio Sismondo makes two claims. First, he states that STS bears no responsibility for the emergence of post-truth politics. Second, he claims that debates about the nature of expertise that take place within STS are irrelevant in this context. In contrast, we argue that, whether or not STS had a causal influence on the emergence of post-truth politics, there is a clear resonance between the two positions …
Connective knowledge
This paper centralises the question of what academics in higher education settings need to know about other fields to stimulate cross-disciplinary collaborative work. The concept of ‘knowledge’, while recognised as important within cross-disciplinary studies, has failed to be properly problematized. Little attention has been paid to what cross-disciplinary knowledge actors should possess, the purposes that knowledge might serve and few pause to c…
The Third Wave in Science and Technology Studies
The Third Wave in Science and Technology Studies
Groups and individuals
The nature and role of social groups is a central tension in sociology. On the one hand, the idea of a group enables sociologists to locate and describe individuals in terms of characteristics that are shared with others. On the other, emphasizing the fluidity of categories such as gender or ethnicity undermines their legitimacy as ways of classifying people and, by extension, the legitimacy of categorization as a goal of sociological research. I…
Experts and the Will of the People
The rise of populism in the West has led to attacks on the legitimacy of scientific expertise in political decision making. This book explores the differences between populism and pluralist democracy and their relationship with science. Pluralist democracy is characterised by respect for minority choices and a system of checks and balances that prevents power being concentrated in one group, while populism treats minorities as traitorous so as to…
A safer, faster, leaner workplace? Technical‐maintenance worker perspectives on digital drone technology ‘effects’ in the European steel industry
This paper focuses on technical‐maintenance worker perspectives on the insertion of digitised drone technologies in the European steel industry. The industry is aiming for a ‘business model transformation’ by means of digitalisation, which includes the use of drone technologies for maintenance functions. In this paper, we explore on what basis might such workers embrace or resist this new technology. Drawing on data from a project investigating t…
Evaluating the imitation game as a method for comparative research
The Imitation Game is a new method and, as such, it is important to show that its results are plausible and replicable. We tested this by conducting Imitation Games on religion in a range of European countries, returning approximately 12 months later to repeat the research. The idea was that non-Christian members of strongly Christian countries would find it easy to pass as members of the practicing majority because Christian beliefs and practice…
"Green skills" and the emergent property of “greening”
This article offers critical analysis of the concept of “green skills" as part of policies designed to support green transition. We argue that it is unhelpful to focus on (definitions and narrow sets of) “green skills", as opposed to conceptualising the emergent properties of social systems which result in “greening” i.e. the incorporation of policies and practices in various societal domains, which comprise measurable reduced environmental impac…
Epistemology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration (5 works)