Steve Yearley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 95905 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steve Yearley |
| PRENOMES | Steve |
| SOBRENOME | Yearley |
| ASSINATURA | YEARLEY S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queen's University Belfast |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1054-4592 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 400 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Sociotechnical agendas
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS are useful at better understanding energy-related social science, to reflect on prominent themes and topics within those approaches, and to identify current re…
One world or two? Science–policy interactions in the climate field
This article assesses how science–policy interactions are conceptualized in the social sciences with special reference to climate change and the IPCC. In terms of the dimension of distance (or proximity) between science and policy, we discern two ideal-type cases: a ‘two-worlds’ and a ‘one-world’ perspective. The first understands science and policy as independent spheres separated by a clear gap, while the second perceives science and policy as …
Risk, Sociology and Politics of
Formalization and separation
In studies of environmental issues, the question of how to establish a productive interplay between science and policy is widely debated, especially in relation to climate change. The aim of this article is to advance this discussion and contribute to a better understanding of how science is summarized for policy purposes by bringing together two academic discussions that usually take place in parallel: the question of how to deal with formalizat…
The Green Case (Routledge Revivals)
First published in 1991, this title provides a comprehensive and objective account of the basis of ‘green’ arguments and their social and political implications. By the beginning of the 1990s, environmental awareness had become widespread, popular, and fashionable throughout the West, adopted by politicians, manufacturers and advertising agencies. The book sets out to explain why and how the ‘green wave’ developed, and examines the forces still s…
Incentivising the collaborative management of mobile ecological resources
Biology and Social Theory in the Environmental Debate
Wild Deer, Multivalence, and Institutional Adaptation
"In Britain, wild deer can be conceptualised as a commons, although a complex institutional structure - founded largely upon land- ownership and notions of stalking rights - has evolved over several hundred years to regulate access to this resource. In recent decades, however, a number of socio-political, economic and ecological factors have fundamentally altered the nature of wild deer as a resource, introducing new impacts along with new intera…
Standing in for nature
Sociology and Climate Change after Kyoto
This article focuses on the comparatively neglected role of the social sciences (including economics) and of assumptions about the social functioning of the scientific community in projections about climate change and about societies' responses to changing climates and related environmental phenomena. Using an approach informed by social constructionism and science and technology studies, it examines the part played by the social sciences and the…
Global Warming
Global warming refers to the belief – now very widely held in the international scientific community – that the earth's climate is undergoing change as a result of inadvertent human actions that have enhanced the “greenhouse effect.” Some people contest this view about the trend toward warming while others have reservations about the proposed explanation for the trend; the public debate around this issue is a vital sociological topic in its own r…
The Sage Dictionary of Sociology
How Many "Ends" of Nature
Despite significant increases in social scientific studies of the environment, there has recently been a narrowing of focus. Increasingly, sociologists have looked at claims and counterclaims about specific environmental problems while missing the broader question of the cultural and social character of environmental concern itself. Only social anthropologists and some social theorists have continued to investigate this issue. In this paper it is…
The “End” or the “Humanization” of Nature
In the last decade, social scientific studies of the environment have increased greatly in number. But this growing interest has been accompanied by a narrowing of focus. Increasingly, sociologists have looked at claims and counterclaims about specific environmental problems while missing the broader question of the cultural and social origins of environmental concern. Only social anthropologists and some social theorists have continued to invest…
Making Sense of Science
This volume demystifies science studies and bridges the divide between social theory and the sociology of science
Cultures of Environmentalism
As environmental issues increasingly impinge on society, sociologists have turned their attention to nature and the environment. However, unlike the majority of sociological work on environmental issu
Environmental social science and the distinction between resource use and industrial pollution
This article aims to discuss the definition of environmental issues and the validity of differentiating between industrial pollution problems and the use of natural resources. A comparative case study including countries of different political systems and socio-economic conditions provided us with data to reflect on this question
Making systematic sense of public discontents with expert knowledge
Several recent strands of work within science studies, risk analysis, the public understanding of science, and environmental policy analysis have focused on the significance of lay knowledge and expertise. In case after case, it has been suggested that “expert” accounts of physical reality have conflicted with local people's knowledge and that rather than local knowledge being routinely inferior and defective, it has commonly proven more sensitiv…
Computer Models and the Public's Understanding of Science
Many of the aspects of science which touch the public most deeply involve some degree of modelling (for example, the dispersion of pollutants, predicted climate change or the spread of flood waters), yet explicit analyses in the public understanding of science tradition (PUS) have seldom examined computerized scientific models. However, scientific models of all sorts are increasingly run on computers, often raising new obstacles to public underst…
Regulatory Science, Europeanization, and the Control of Agrochemicals
This article addresses issues of regulatory convergence and Europeanization as they have developed within the agrochemicals sector. Taking the United Kingdom as a case study, the article considers the continuing importance of local and national factors within systems that are ostensibly international and standardized. In particular, the article shows how the embedded social relations of regulatory science in the United Kingdom, including institut…
Lay perspectives
Although involvement of the consumer is increasingly being advocated in health related research, it is not welcome universally. Furthermore, the underlying rationale is rarely made explicit. Policy makers, health care professionals, and researchers need to be clear about the benefits and ways of including lay perspectives and the criteria for evaluating these. Examples of lay involvement in setting research agendas,1 2 3 4 methodological debate,5…
Science and the environment
The Changing Social Authority of Science
Regulatory science—Towards a sociological framework
Globalization in Question
Sociotechnical agendas
The field of science and technology studies (STS) has introduced and developed a “sociotechnical” perspective that has been taken up by many disciplines and areas of inquiry. The aims and objectives of this study are threefold: to interrogate which sociotechnical concepts or tools from STS are useful at better understanding energy-related social science, to reflect on prominent themes and topics within those approaches, and to identify current re…
Misunderstanding Science
Misunderstanding Science? offers a challenging new perspective on the public understanding of science. In so doing, it also challenges existing ideas of the nature of science and its relationships with society. Its analysis and case presentation are highly relevant to current concerns over the uptake, authority, and effectiveness of science as expressed, for example, in areas such as education, medical/health practice, risk and the environment, t…
Green Ambivalence about Science
Unlike many social movements, the environmental movement has a profound dependence on scientific evidence and scientific expertise. Without modern science no-one would know about the ozone layer, much less about the well publicized « holes » in it. Yet, at the same time, many within the green movement are distrustful of scientific authority and of the fruits of technology. This paper examines the way this incipient paradox affects the environment…
Regulatory science—Towards a sociological framework
Sociology and Climate Change after Kyoto
This article focuses on the comparatively neglected role of the social sciences (including economics) and of assumptions about the social functioning of the scientific community in projections about climate change and about societies' responses to changing climates and related environmental phenomena. Using an approach informed by social constructionism and science and technology studies, it examines the part played by the social sciences and the…
Formalization and separation
In studies of environmental issues, the question of how to establish a productive interplay between science and policy is widely debated, especially in relation to climate change. The aim of this article is to advance this discussion and contribute to a better understanding of how science is summarized for policy purposes by bringing together two academic discussions that usually take place in parallel: the question of how to deal with formalizat…
Computer Models and the Public's Understanding of Science
Many of the aspects of science which touch the public most deeply involve some degree of modelling (for example, the dispersion of pollutants, predicted climate change or the spread of flood waters), yet explicit analyses in the public understanding of science tradition (PUS) have seldom examined computerized scientific models. However, scientific models of all sorts are increasingly run on computers, often raising new obstacles to public underst…
Understanding science from the perspective of the sociology of scientific knowledge
In this paper I argue that the analytic perspective known as the `sociology of scientific knowledge' (SSK) provides an appropriate platform for examining issues in the public understanding of science. In particular. I suggest that three pervasive features of academic scientific practice identified by SSK—trust, judgement and long-termism—are central to interpreting difficulties with the `public understanding of science' in many situations of publ…
Bog Standards
This paper examines a public inquiry into the proposed draining and exploitation of a peat bog, held to be of great significance by conservationists. Inquiries seem to offer a `naturally-occurring' instance of the public understanding of science. Of course, the conventions and procedures of legal examination dictate that scientific arguments may be treated differently in court from the way they are normally handled by the public. Still, the purpo…
Textual Persuasion
One world or two? Science–policy interactions in the climate field
This article assesses how science–policy interactions are conceptualized in the social sciences with special reference to climate change and the IPCC. In terms of the dimension of distance (or proximity) between science and policy, we discern two ideal-type cases: a ‘two-worlds’ and a ‘one-world’ perspective. The first understands science and policy as independent spheres separated by a clear gap, while the second perceives science and policy as …
Regulatory Science, Europeanization, and the Control of Agrochemicals
This article addresses issues of regulatory convergence and Europeanization as they have developed within the agrochemicals sector. Taking the United Kingdom as a case study, the article considers the continuing importance of local and national factors within systems that are ostensibly international and standardized. In particular, the article shows how the embedded social relations of regulatory science in the United Kingdom, including institut…
Stigma and conversational competence
Society as Text
Vocabularies of Freedom and Resentment
In this paper Strawson's work on a linguistically based metaphysics is used to uncover fundamental similarities in the structure of argumentation in science and the law. It is shown that in both instances a practical judgement regularly has to be made between competing, exclusive vocabularies of freedom and determinism. The analytic significance of the existence of these vocabularies is developed conceptually to suggest how such vocabularies may …
Researching the Precambrian Biosphere
Sociologists have employed various metaphors to depict science in a way which distances it from epistemological privilege. Among these metaphors, portraying science as `work' stands out both because, for many people, science is work, and because there is a well developed sociological literature on the topic. However, using this image, it is easy to assume that the characteristics of scientific work are set by the natural world. This paper uses a …
Settling Accounts
Sociologists have recently debated the general manner in which respondents' accounts should be treated. Should they be regarded as evidence of underlying intentions, objectives and beliefs or should analytical attention focus on the structure of the accounts themselves? This paper reviews this debate from the point of view of the philosophy of social science. While, as critics have noted, the 'accountist' position is subject to major epistemologi…
Incentivising the collaborative management of mobile ecological resources
From One Dependency to Another
The literature on the politics of science and on science policy is dominated by information about large and highly industrialized countries. For example, models of the different forms of science policy administration and management tend to derive from French, U.S., and British exemplars. Yet in the mid-1990s there is a growing number of small nations, all of which are seeking to harness research communities to the cause of socioeconomic developme…
Orchestrating an encounter
Patterns of power, leadership, authority and status within a group are all displayed in interaction and materially affect the flow of natural conversation. Authority and status, often accorded by mentally handicapped children on the basis of self‐assessments of communicative competence, can constitute important local resources which enable one of the parties to assume the role of co‐ordinator of the conversational interaction. In this case the in…
Colonial Science and Dependent Development
This paper draws on recent studies of colonial science and of the social function of science in the underdeveloped world to analyse the social development of science in Ireland and, subsequently, the Irish Republic. It is suggested that after the Act of Union scientific activity in Ireland became prized as a cultural practice, largely isolated from its local context and potential local applications. Because of governmenta priorities in the new st…
Globalization in Question
The Irish environmental protection agency
(1995). The Irish environmental protection agency: The early years. Environmental Politics: Vol. 4, Ecology and Democracy, pp. 258-264
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives
Skills, Deals and Impartiality
Voluntary organizations concerned with nature conservation and environmental protection clearly need a source of funding. Many receive governmental support in various ways, but a high degree of reliance on such largesse is felt to compromise their independence. They thus look to other fund-raising ventures, such as sponsored tree-planting and sales of wildlife holidays. Given the high standards of scientific expertise commonly available in these …
Textual Persuasion
Interactive-Orientation and Argumentation in Scientific Texts
Sociologists have frequently sought to explain people's beliefs and claims to knowledge in terms of those people's interests. Yet in every case the knowledge/interest connection is an interpretative and revisable one and, moreover, people may have many possibly-ascribable interests. Accordingly the ascription of interests in any particular case is fraught with difficulty. However, actors themselves appear regularly to engage in this kind of inter…
Vocabularies of Freedom and Resentment
In this paper Strawson's work on a linguistically based metaphysics is used to uncover fundamental similarities in the structure of argumentation in science and the law. It is shown that in both instances a practical judgement regularly has to be made between competing, exclusive vocabularies of freedom and determinism. The analytic significance of the existence of these vocabularies is developed conceptually to suggest how such vocabularies may …
The Limits of Scientific Reasoning.David Faust
The social construction of national scientific profiles
The dictates of method and policy
Settling Accounts
Sociologists have recently debated the general manner in which respondents' accounts should be treated. Should they be regarded as evidence of underlying intentions, objectives and beliefs or should analytical attention focus on the structure of the accounts themselves? This paper reviews this debate from the point of view of the philosophy of social science. While, as critics have noted, the 'accountist' position is subject to major epistemologi…
Environmentalism
Bog Standards
This paper examines a public inquiry into the proposed draining and exploitation of a peat bog, held to be of great significance by conservationists. Inquiries seem to offer a `naturally-occurring' instance of the public understanding of science. Of course, the conventions and procedures of legal examination dictate that scientific arguments may be treated differently in court from the way they are normally handled by the public. Still, the purpo…
Stigma and conversational competence
Society as Text
Colonial Science and Dependent Development
This paper draws on recent studies of colonial science and of the social function of science in the underdeveloped world to analyse the social development of science in Ireland and, subsequently, the Irish Republic. It is suggested that after the Act of Union scientific activity in Ireland became prized as a cultural practice, largely isolated from its local context and potential local applications. Because of governmenta priorities in the new st…
Social Epistemology.Steve Fuller
Deciphering Science and Technology
As science and technology have pervaded modern life to an ever greater degree, social scientists have been led to find questions of the causes and consequences of 'expert' knowledge arising in places
Researching the Precambrian Biosphere
Sociologists have employed various metaphors to depict science in a way which distances it from epistemological privilege. Among these metaphors, portraying science as `work' stands out both because, for many people, science is work, and because there is a well developed sociological literature on the topic. However, using this image, it is easy to assume that the characteristics of scientific work are set by the natural world. This paper uses a …
The Green Case
Studying the Green Case An Outline of the Issues Putting the Green Case Together Green Publics, Green Politics, Green Companies? The Science of Saving the Planet Development and the Environment Afterword - Social Science and the Green Case
The New Reproductive Technologies
Orchestrating an encounter
Patterns of power, leadership, authority and status within a group are all displayed in interaction and materially affect the flow of natural conversation. Authority and status, often accorded by mentally handicapped children on the basis of self‐assessments of communicative competence, can constitute important local resources which enable one of the parties to assume the role of co‐ordinator of the conversational interaction. In this case the in…
Skills, Deals and Impartiality
Voluntary organizations concerned with nature conservation and environmental protection clearly need a source of funding. Many receive governmental support in various ways, but a high degree of reliance on such largesse is felt to compromise their independence. They thus look to other fund-raising ventures, such as sponsored tree-planting and sales of wildlife holidays. Given the high standards of scientific expertise commonly available in these …
Deciphering Science and Technology
The centrality of science and technology, Ian Varcoe and Steven Yearley the State, war and technical innovation in Great Britain, 1930-50 - the contrasts of military and civil industry, David Edgerton who gets science education?, Alison Kelly conceptions of British employment re-structuring in the 1980s, Anne Pollert Unhealthy displays? - trade unions, VDUs and the social construction of a health hazard, Peter Glasner and David Travis new technol…
Animal Rights, Human Rights
The campaign to ban seal hunting in Canada won international headlines and achieved its aims to a large extent. Most observers felt instinctively that the campaigners were .right. but little thought was given to the cataclysmic consequences the ban would have on the way of life and economy of a traditional people, the Inuit of Arctic Canada. A distinguished anthropologist who has spent over twenty years living and working with the Inuit Community…
Green Ambivalence about Science
Unlike many social movements, the environmental movement has a profound dependence on scientific evidence and scientific expertise. Without modern science no-one would know about the ozone layer, much less about the well publicized « holes » in it. Yet, at the same time, many within the green movement are distrustful of scientific authority and of the fruits of technology. This paper examines the way this incipient paradox affects the environment…
Self-Organization
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives
Environmental knowledge interests
The Making of the New Environmental Consciousness: A Comparative Study of the Environmental Movements in Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands, by Andrew Jamison, Ron Eyerman and Jacqueline Cramer with Jeppe Laess⊘e, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991, 216 pages, hb £27.50
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