Stephen C Zehr
Biographic Data
| ID | 307202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen C Zehr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen C |
| FAMILY NAME | Zehr |
| SIGNATURE | ZEHR S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern Indiana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4754-9274 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Climate, Science and Society: A Primer
Climate, Science and Society: A Primer makes cutting-edge research on climate change accessible to student readers. \n \nThe primer consists of 37 short chapters organized within 11 parts written by Science and Technology Studies (STS) and other social science scholars. It covers a range of key topics including communication, justice and inequality, climate policy, and energy transitions, situating each one within the context of STS studies. Each…
The sociology of global climate change
Sociological research on global climate change ( GCC ) can be found in several subfields, but it has primarily emerged within the theoretical and substantive domain of sociology of the environment. This review provides an overview of sociological literature on climate change and identifies key areas for further research and development. The review focuses on four broad areas: social causes, construction of the problem, relationship between GCC an…
Public representations of scientific uncertainty about global climate change
This paper addresses the representation of scientific uncertainty about global warming and climate change in the U.S. popular press. An examination of popular press articles about global warming from 1986 to 1995 reveals that scientific uncertainty was a salient theme. The paper describes several forms of uncertainty construction and means through which it was managed. I argue that scientific uncertainty was used to help construct an exclusionary…
Uncertain Knowledge: An Image of Science for a Changing World . R. G. A. Dolby
Demolition derbies: The ritualistic destruction of technology
Method, Scale and Socio-Technical Networks: Problems of Standardization in Acid Rain, Ozone Depletion and Global Warming Research
No abstract
The centrality of scientists and the translation of interests in the U.S. acid rain controversy
Les études societies traitant les controverses et problèmes de l'environnement concentrent davantage leur attention sur les activités d'entrepreneur des hommes de science. Cet exposé sur le problème de la pluie acide aux États‐Unis analyse des activités ‘réclamatrices’ et de ‘traduction’ des premiers chercheurs‐universitaires concernant la pluie acide. Il explique aussi comment ceci permit aux hommes de science et chercheurs scientifiques de se s…
Flexible Interpretations of “Acid Rain” and the Construction of Scientific Uncertainty in Political Settings
Much research in social studies of science addresses scientists' interpretative flexibility in the construction of scientific knowledge. This flexibility is readily visible among different scientists' competing knowledge-claims as well as in their accounts across different social settings. This article illustrates this process and discusses some of its implications through a case study of descriptions of acid rain in published scientific papers a…
Accounting for the Ozone Hole: Scientific Representations of an Anomaly and Prior Incorrect Claims in Public Settings
In the early 1980s, accounts of ozone depletion in the popular press, Congressional hearings and scientific literature reported reduced projections of loss. This environmental problem did not seem as severe as many had predicted in the 1970s. However, in 1985 an unexplained Antarctic ozone hole was reported in the scientific literature. This paper looks at how earlier “incorrect” conclusions and the ozone hole itself were accounted for in the pop…
Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics
Professionalization of American Scientists: Public Science in the Creation/ Evolution Trials
The boundary between and religion has long been a site for cultural and professional conflict. We examine the testimony of scientists at the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 and at the McLean Creation-Science trial in 1981-82. The two trials were public occasions for scientists to present ideologies of .that legitimated their professional claims to cognitive authority, public financing and control over part of the public school curriculum. The rhetori…
Professionalization of American Scientists: Public Science in the Creation/ Evolution Trials
The boundary between and religion has long been a site for cultural and professional conflict. We examine the testimony of scientists at the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 and at the McLean Creation-Science trial in 1981-82. The two trials were public occasions for scientists to present ideologies of .that legitimated their professional claims to cognitive authority, public financing and control over part of the public school curriculum. The rhetori…
The sociology of global climate change
Sociological research on global climate change ( GCC ) can be found in several subfields, but it has primarily emerged within the theoretical and substantive domain of sociology of the environment. This review provides an overview of sociological literature on climate change and identifies key areas for further research and development. The review focuses on four broad areas: social causes, construction of the problem, relationship between GCC an…
Flexible Interpretations of “Acid Rain” and the Construction of Scientific Uncertainty in Political Settings
Much research in social studies of science addresses scientists' interpretative flexibility in the construction of scientific knowledge. This flexibility is readily visible among different scientists' competing knowledge-claims as well as in their accounts across different social settings. This article illustrates this process and discusses some of its implications through a case study of descriptions of acid rain in published scientific papers a…
The centrality of scientists and the translation of interests in the U.S. acid rain controversy
Les études societies traitant les controverses et problèmes de l'environnement concentrent davantage leur attention sur les activités d'entrepreneur des hommes de science. Cet exposé sur le problème de la pluie acide aux États‐Unis analyse des activités ‘réclamatrices’ et de ‘traduction’ des premiers chercheurs‐universitaires concernant la pluie acide. Il explique aussi comment ceci permit aux hommes de science et chercheurs scientifiques de se s…
Accounting for the Ozone Hole: Scientific Representations of an Anomaly and Prior Incorrect Claims in Public Settings
In the early 1980s, accounts of ozone depletion in the popular press, Congressional hearings and scientific literature reported reduced projections of loss. This environmental problem did not seem as severe as many had predicted in the 1970s. However, in 1985 an unexplained Antarctic ozone hole was reported in the scientific literature. This paper looks at how earlier “incorrect” conclusions and the ozone hole itself were accounted for in the pop…
Professionalization of American Scientists: Public Science in the Creation/ Evolution Trials
The boundary between and religion has long been a site for cultural and professional conflict. We examine the testimony of scientists at the Scopes Monkey Trial in 1925 and at the McLean Creation-Science trial in 1981-82. The two trials were public occasions for scientists to present ideologies of .that legitimated their professional claims to cognitive authority, public financing and control over part of the public school curriculum. The rhetori…
Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics
Method, Scale and Socio-Technical Networks: Problems of Standardization in Acid Rain, Ozone Depletion and Global Warming Research
No abstract
The centrality of scientists and the translation of interests in the U.S. acid rain controversy
Les études societies traitant les controverses et problèmes de l'environnement concentrent davantage leur attention sur les activités d'entrepreneur des hommes de science. Cet exposé sur le problème de la pluie acide aux États‐Unis analyse des activités ‘réclamatrices’ et de ‘traduction’ des premiers chercheurs‐universitaires concernant la pluie acide. Il explique aussi comment ceci permit aux hommes de science et chercheurs scientifiques de se s…
Flexible Interpretations of “Acid Rain” and the Construction of Scientific Uncertainty in Political Settings
Much research in social studies of science addresses scientists' interpretative flexibility in the construction of scientific knowledge. This flexibility is readily visible among different scientists' competing knowledge-claims as well as in their accounts across different social settings. This article illustrates this process and discusses some of its implications through a case study of descriptions of acid rain in published scientific papers a…
Accounting for the Ozone Hole: Scientific Representations of an Anomaly and Prior Incorrect Claims in Public Settings
In the early 1980s, accounts of ozone depletion in the popular press, Congressional hearings and scientific literature reported reduced projections of loss. This environmental problem did not seem as severe as many had predicted in the 1970s. However, in 1985 an unexplained Antarctic ozone hole was reported in the scientific literature. This paper looks at how earlier “incorrect” conclusions and the ozone hole itself were accounted for in the pop…
Demolition derbies: The ritualistic destruction of technology
Uncertain Knowledge: An Image of Science for a Changing World . R. G. A. Dolby
Public representations of scientific uncertainty about global climate change
This paper addresses the representation of scientific uncertainty about global warming and climate change in the U.S. popular press. An examination of popular press articles about global warming from 1986 to 1995 reveals that scientific uncertainty was a salient theme. The paper describes several forms of uncertainty construction and means through which it was managed. I argue that scientific uncertainty was used to help construct an exclusionary…
The sociology of global climate change
Sociological research on global climate change ( GCC ) can be found in several subfields, but it has primarily emerged within the theoretical and substantive domain of sociology of the environment. This review provides an overview of sociological literature on climate change and identifies key areas for further research and development. The review focuses on four broad areas: social causes, construction of the problem, relationship between GCC an…
Climate, Science and Society: A Primer
Climate, Science and Society: A Primer makes cutting-edge research on climate change accessible to student readers. \n \nThe primer consists of 37 short chapters organized within 11 parts written by Science and Technology Studies (STS) and other social science scholars. It covers a range of key topics including communication, justice and inequality, climate policy, and energy transitions, situating each one within the context of STS studies. Each…
Political science (8 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social science (3 works)