Wolfgang Krohn
Biographic Data
| ID | 88236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang Krohn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Krohn |
| SIGNATURE | KROHN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bielefeld University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Peter Fischer, Kosmos und Gesellschaft: Wissenssoziologische Untersuchungen zur Frühen Moderne. Weilerswist: Velbrück 2023, 323 S., br., 49,90 €
Von der Vielgestaltigkeit des Experimentierens
Das Experimentieren ist ein zentrales Merkmal transdisziplinären Forschens. In der Regel versuchen die Forschenden, das Ziel und die Schritte seiner Erreichbarkeit möglichst genau vorzugeben und trotzdem experimentelle Praxis in der Projektarbeit zu erlauben. Um für die Forschungspraxis zu lernen, etwa wie mit Störungen umzugehen ist, kann es nützlich sein, einen Blick auf die biochemische und molekularbiologische Grundlagenforschung zu werfen
Experiment
Experiments in the broadest sense are trial‐and‐error practices common in all cultures. As a method, experimentation is the distinguishing feature of modern science. Depending on objects and instruments, the method varies greatly and it serves different epistemic values. Its central place is the laboratory; however, real‐world and field experiments are no less important. Beyond science, experimentation has become an integral part of societal mode…
Transdisziplinäre Forschung kontrovers ‐ Antworten und Ausblicke
Reaktion auf fünf Beiträge in GAIA zur Theorie transdisziplinärer Forschung
Transdisziplinäre Forschung revisited: Erkenntnisinteresse, Forschungsgegenstände, Wissensform und Methodologie
Drängende Projektaufgaben lassen wenig Raum, sich Zeit zur wissenschaftstheoretischen Analyse der Eigenständigkeit von transdisziplinärer Forschung und ihrer Positionierung in der gegenwärtigen Wissenschaft zu nehmen. Dabei dient eine solche Analyse keinem weltfremden Selbstzweck. Der Beitrag liefert einen zusammenhängenden Analyserahmen.The ongoing growth of the field of transdisciplinary research primarily takes place in transformative practice…
Experimentelle Gesellschaft: Das Experiment als wissensgesellschaftliches Dispositiv
Finalization in Science
Finalization in science is a theory concerning the relationship between science and society from a historical and political perspective. It was developed in the 1970s by Gernot Böhme, Wolfgang van den Daele, and Wolfgang Krohn (Böhme, and van den Daele, 1976; Böhme, van den Daele, and Krohn, 1972, 1973, 1978). Its main thesis is that modern science has internal dynamics that allow it to absorb external goals of research on an increasing scale. Th…
Selforganization: Portrait of a Scientific Revolution
Reframing the Social: Emergentist Systemism and Social Theory
Inhalt
Die moderne Gesellschaft als Experimentierraum
Einleitung
Heterogene Akteure und experimentelle Kooperationen: Parkgestaltung in Chicago
Die Zukunft des Experiments in der Wissensgesellschaft
Vergessenes Wissen und Überraschungen: Der Sempachersee als Labor
Experiment und Modernität
Experimentelle Praktiken der deutschen Abfallentsorgung: Von der wilden Deponie zum Dualen System
Rekursives Lernen in der Sackgasse: Viehzucht in der Savanne Tansanias
Literatur
Backmatter
Realexperimente: Ökologische Gestaltungsprozesse in der Wissensgesellschaft
Realexperimente tragen die Risiken der Forschung in die Gesellschaft. Gesellschaft wird damit ein Laboratorium des Wandels, in dem die Suche nach neuem Wissen und die Anwendung erprobten Wissens Hand in Hand gehen. Die Fallbeispiele in diesem Buch illustrieren, wie sich daraus rekursive Lernprozesse ergeben. Die Beispiele stammen aus drei Kontinenten und erstrecken sich von der Sanierung des Sempachersees in der Schweiz bis zum Design einer Halbi…
Society as experiment: Sociological Foundations for a Self-Experimental Society
Experiments are generally thought of as actions or operations undertaken to test a scientific hypothesis in settings detached from the rest of society. In this paper a different notion of experiment will be discussed. It is an understanding that has been developed in the classical tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology since the 1890s, but has so far remained unexplored. This sociological understanding of experiment does not model itself st…
The Social Origins of Modern Science
The Genesis of The Concept of Physical Law
The Sociological Roots of Science
Society as experiment: Sociological Foundations for a Self-Experimental Society
Experiments are generally thought of as actions or operations undertaken to test a scientific hypothesis in settings detached from the rest of society. In this paper a different notion of experiment will be discussed. It is an understanding that has been developed in the classical tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology since the 1890s, but has so far remained unexplored. This sociological understanding of experiment does not model itself st…
Die Finalisierung der Wissenschaft / The Finalization of Science
Contemporary science is characterized by a specific latitude for alternative developments. This means that science is open for external (economic, social, political) purposes to become the guide-lines of the development of theory. The transition to such a structure is here defined as „the finalization of science“. This notion must be distinguished from traditional forms of the „application“ of theoretical results. To explicate it, assumptions are…
Finalization in science
Alternativen in der Wissenschaft / Alternatives in Science
The development of science is neither necessary nor accidental: there are alternatives in the development of science that are not decided upon internal criteria. The concept of the alternative in science is made explicit through a distinction between internal and external determinatives of growth. Alternatives will be characterized in methodological terms. The existence of alternatives can be noticed from the lacunae in all attempts at explaining…
Science as an agent of change: Finalization and Experimental Implementation
This article proposes that goal-oriented sciences contribute not only theory-based knowledge but also strategies of research to processes of social and technological innovation. The finalization model focused on disciplinary programmes, we focus on networks of innovation in which scientists become agents of change. Their role implies taking a variety of political, economic, legal and moral considerations into account, and their activities not onl…
Commentary: Nuclear Power as a Social Experiment—European Political “Fall Out” from the Chernobyl Meltdown
Society has become an experimentation field for complex technologies. Nuclear power plants are being sold as well-developed products by industry, they are legitimated as necessary for the future provision of energy by political agencies, and scientifically they are supported by seemingly objective and neutral safety studies and risk assessments. But none of the 300 existing nuclear power plants are identical and their safety cannot be tested unde…
Alternatives in Science
Soziale Systeme und ihre ökologischen Selbstbeschreibungen
Ökologische Themen haben in einem beträchtlichen Umfang Eingang in die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung gefunden. Aber in der theoretischen Soziologe ist bisher kein überzeugender Versuch vorgelegt worden, für die Relation von Gesellschaft und natürlicher Umwelt eine konzeptuelle Form zu finden, die weder einen neuen Naturalismus einführt noch vorschnell normativ verfährt. Dieser Beitrag nimmt bei zwei Theorien - der konstruktivistischen Systemt…
Experimentelle Gesellschaft: Das Experiment als wissensgesellschaftliches Dispositiv
Alternativen in der Wissenschaft / Alternatives in Science
The development of science is neither necessary nor accidental: there are alternatives in the development of science that are not decided upon internal criteria. The concept of the alternative in science is made explicit through a distinction between internal and external determinatives of growth. Alternatives will be characterized in methodological terms. The existence of alternatives can be noticed from the lacunae in all attempts at explaining…
Die Finalisierung der Wissenschaft / The Finalization of Science
Contemporary science is characterized by a specific latitude for alternative developments. This means that science is open for external (economic, social, political) purposes to become the guide-lines of the development of theory. The transition to such a structure is here defined as „the finalization of science“. This notion must be distinguished from traditional forms of the „application“ of theoretical results. To explicate it, assumptions are…
Finalization in science
The Dynamics of Science and Technology
Alternatives in Science
The Dynamics of Science and Technology
The Dynamics of Science and Technology: Social Values, Technical Norms and Scientific Criteria in the Development of Knowledge
I Science and Technology The Conceptual Distinction Reconsidered.- Physics - Natural Science or Technology?.- Goal Direction of Scientific Research.- II The Interrelation between Science and Technology A Close-up View at Determining Factors.- Millwrights and Engineers, Science, Social Roles, and the Evolution of the Turbine in America.- Science, Technology and Economics: The Invention of Radio as a Case Study.- On the Relation between Technology …
Commentary: Nuclear Power as a Social Experiment—European Political “Fall Out” from the Chernobyl Meltdown
Society has become an experimentation field for complex technologies. Nuclear power plants are being sold as well-developed products by industry, they are legitimated as necessary for the future provision of energy by political agencies, and scientifically they are supported by seemingly objective and neutral safety studies and risk assessments. But none of the 300 existing nuclear power plants are identical and their safety cannot be tested unde…
Selforganization
Selforganization — the Convergence of Ideas An Introduction
Selbstorganisation: Aspekte einer wissenschaftlichen Revolution
Wolfgang Krohn, Giinter Kiippers {raquo}Selbstorganisation{laquo} steht heute als umfassender Begriff fUr eine Reihe von Konzepten, die unter verschiedenen Namen wie Synergetik, Autopoiese, dissipative Strukturen, selbstreferente Systeme eines gemeinsam haben: die Bemiihung urn die Beschreibung und das Verstiindnis des Verhaltens komple xer, dynamischer Systeme. In der Physik etwa geht es urn die Erkliirung von Strukturbildung (hydrodynamische Ko…
Self-Organization: Portrait of a Scientific Revolution. Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook XIV
Soziale Systeme und ihre ökologischen Selbstbeschreibungen
Ökologische Themen haben in einem beträchtlichen Umfang Eingang in die sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung gefunden. Aber in der theoretischen Soziologe ist bisher kein überzeugender Versuch vorgelegt worden, für die Relation von Gesellschaft und natürlicher Umwelt eine konzeptuelle Form zu finden, die weder einen neuen Naturalismus einführt noch vorschnell normativ verfährt. Dieser Beitrag nimmt bei zwei Theorien - der konstruktivistischen Systemt…
Science as an agent of change: Finalization and Experimental Implementation
This article proposes that goal-oriented sciences contribute not only theory-based knowledge but also strategies of research to processes of social and technological innovation. The finalization model focused on disciplinary programmes, we focus on networks of innovation in which scientists become agents of change. Their role implies taking a variety of political, economic, legal and moral considerations into account, and their activities not onl…
The Sociology of Philosophies: A Global Theory of Intellectual Change. Randall Collins
Wissenschaftssoziologie: Zwischen Modernisierungstheorie und Sozialkonstruktivismus auf schwankendem epistemischem Boden
Article Wissenschaftssoziologie: Zwischen Modernisierungstheorie und Sozialkonstruktivismus auf schwankendem epistemischem Boden was published on December 1, 2000 in the journal Soziologische Revue (volume 23, issue Supplement)
The `Zilsel Thesis' in the Context of Edgar Zilsel's Research Programme
Edgar Zilsel (1891-1944), historian and philosopher of science, arrived in America with what he called `two copious manuscripts': one on `the Social Roots of Science'; the other on `Natural and Historical Laws'. The first forms the basis for his historiographical essays written and published during World War II while in exile in America. These essays have given rise to the so-called `Zilsel Thesis', which holds that modern science came into being…
The Social Origins of Modern Science
The Genesis of The Concept of Physical Law
The Sociological Roots of Science
Inhalt
Die moderne Gesellschaft als Experimentierraum
Einleitung
Heterogene Akteure und experimentelle Kooperationen: Parkgestaltung in Chicago
Die Zukunft des Experiments in der Wissensgesellschaft
Philosophy (22 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Political science (18 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · German Social Sciences and History (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Social science (11 works) · Innovation, Technology, and Society (9 works) · Law (9 works)