Sociology of Science & Technology Books

New and Published Books

1. Thomistic Principles and Bioethics

   By Jason T. Eberl

   Series: Routledge Annals of Bioethics

   Alongside a revival of interest in Thomism in philosophy, scholars have realised its relevance when addressing certain contemporary issues in bioethics. This book offers a rigorous interpretation of Aquinas's metaphysics and ethical thought, and highlights its significance to questions in bioethics...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Knowledge

   Edited by Patrick Baert, Fernando Domínguez Rubio

   Social scientists often refer to contemporary advanced societies as ‘knowledge societies’, which indicates the extent to which ‘science’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘knowledge production’ have become fundamental phenomena in Western societies and central concerns for the social sciences. This book aims to...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. Perspectives on Genetic Discrimination

   By Thomas Lemke

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Over the past 15 years, a series of empirical studies in different countries have shown that our increasing genetic knowledge leads to new forms of exclusion, disadvantaging and stigmatization. The spectrum of this "genetic discrimination" ranges from disadvantages at work, via problems with...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
4. Disorder and the Disinformation Society

   The Social Dynamics of Networks and Software

   By Jonathan Marshall, James Goodman, Didar Zowghi, Francesca da Rimini

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   Based in both rigorous theoretical work and case studies of software and network usage and installation, this book explores the idea that disruption and disorder are essential to the dynamic composition of contemporary Information Society. It covers topics ranging from organizational and social...

   Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Transformative Capacity of New Technologies

   A Theory of Sociotechnical Change

   By Ulrich Dolata

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Scientific concepts on the co-evolution of technology and society, as well as recent sociotechnical system approaches, focus on the general interrelations between technology, socioeconomic structures, and institutions. Their aim is to study and explain processes and modes of technological change....

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

   Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones

   Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

   This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what?...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
7. Science at the Cross Roads (Routledge Revivals)

   Papers from The Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology 1931

   Edited by N. Bukharin et al.

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   The papers given by the Soviet Delegation to the Second International Congress of the History of Science and Technology in London in 1931, headed by N. I. Bukharin, exerted a profound influence on Western historiography of science. Perhaps the most influential contribution was that of Hessen, who...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
8. Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment

   The Case of India

   By Manu Mathai

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   Nuclear power is often characterized as a "green technology." Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts. Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of values and priorities. Nuclear power is no different. It is a product of a particular political economy and the question...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
9. Innovation in Socio-Cultural Context

   Edited by Frane Adam, Hans Westlund

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Innovation - the process of obtaining, understanding, applying, transforming, managing and transferring knowledge - is a result of human collaboration, but it has become an increasingly complex process, with a growing number of interacting parties involved. Lack of innovation is not necessarily...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Revisited

    Edited by Vasso Kindi, Theodore Arabatzis

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science

    The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Thomas S. Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Up until recently, the book’s philosophical reception has been shaped, for the most part, by the debates and the climate in philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s; this new...

    Published November 25th 2012 by Routledge