The Social Warp of Science
Writing the History of Genetic Engineering Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337368 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wright (0000-0002-8124-4335, University of Michigan, corresponding author), Susan Wright (0000-0002-9290-6242) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-101 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/016224399301800105 |
| PMID | 11652076 |
| OpenAlex | W2163126418 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 26 |
Traditional empiricism, although largely abandoned, has marked the social studies of science through the persistent division between macrolevel analysis of the institutions promoting and regulating science and microlevel analysis of the laboratory, theories, and experiments. Further traces appear in the largely separate methodologies used in social studies of science, which do not draw from political theory, and studies in political theory, which are silent with respect to the expression of power in the development of science. Poststructuralist conceptions of science have reinforced this divcsion by encour aging a turn away from explanations that assume human agency and accountability . This article attempts to bridge the present methodological gulf between political theory and the social studies of science through methods that are sensitive to the nature and operation of power and to its expression in discourse. The application of these methods in the study of genetic engineering policy m the United States and the United Kingdom is outlined
Economics · Epistemology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Social science · Social theory · Sociology · Biotechnology and Related Fields · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Risk Perception and Management
Reliable Knowledge and Unreliable Stuff
Vierter Gentechnologiebericht
GMO regulation and civic participation at the “edge of the world”
Genetic engineering regulation in Australia
Framing GM crops as a food security solution
Competitiveness versus ‘clean and green’? The regulation and governance of GMOs in Australia and the UK
Multifunctionality
Power
The Social construction of technological systems
Power and poverty
History in Crisis? The Others' Side of the Story
Essays in Social Theory
A Preface to Democratic Theory, Expanded Edition
Towards a theory of communicative competence
Power
Following Scientists Around
Interests and Explanation in the Social Study of Science
On the 'Hows' and 'Whys' of Cultural Change (Response to Woolgar)
On Interests and their Transformation
Interests, Positivism and History
Molecular Biology or Molecular Politics? The Production of Scientific Consensus on the Hazards of Recombinant DNA Technology
Technology and Society The Social Construction of Technological Systems
Foucault on Power
Science Studies in the 1990s
Recombinant DNA Technology and Its Social Transformation, 1972-1982
Two Faces of Power
The Theory of Practice and the Practice of Theory
Nondecisions and the Study of Local Politics
Decisions and Nondecisions
Urban Politics
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2018 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |