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This book was triggered by the recent geopolitical shifts and the turn towards an allegedly post-factual era. An Orderly Mess is a timely diagnosis of...
The Dynamics of Science and Research in Contemporary Societies
In this provocative and broad-ranging work, the authors argue that the ways in which knowledge - scientific, social and cultural - is produced are und...
Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific researc...
The Modern and Postmodern Experience
"Helga Nowotny's exploration of the forms and meaning of time in contemporary life is panoramic without in any way partaking of the blandness of a sur...
Innovation in a Fragile Future
An influential scholar in science studies argues that innovation tames the insatiable and limitless curiosity driving science, and that society's acut...
Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty
Re-Thinking Science presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, inter...
Power, Illusion and Control of Predictive Algorithms
One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the predictive algorithms of AI – and, if so, what this will...
Politics, Markets, Science and the Law
Science has development from a self-evident public good to being highly valued in other contexts for different reasons: strengthening the economic com...
Making the Invisible Visible
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Ideas for a Better Society
Outlines how to rethink society's economic, political, and social institutions and actions to take to build better societies....
The Emergence of High-Temperature Superconductivity as a Research Field
Short book on the history and sociology of science surrounding the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity....
Utilization Contexts and the Application of Knowledge
Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age
The interaction between new forms of biological life and new forms of social life in modern democracies....
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Its Impact on the Home, Local Community, and Marginal Groups
Kat. Kunsthaus Zürich
Zeit - das große Rätsel Die Zeit zählt zu den großen Rätseln der Zivilisationsgeschichte, ihre Definitionen sind zahlreich und finden sich in d...
Abstract: "This paper aims to trace the development of the main strands of sociological thought in Austria, to present characteristic research conduct...