Misunderstanding Science?: The Public Reconstruction of Science and Technology

False impression technological know-how? deals a difficult new point of view at the public realizing of technological know-how. In so doing, it additionally demanding situations current rules of the character of technology and its relationships with society. Its research and case presentation are hugely suitable to present matters over the uptake, authority, and effectiveness of technological know-how as expressed, for instance, in parts similar to schooling, medical/health perform, possibility and the surroundings, technological innovation.

De-familiarizing readings : essays from the Austin Joyce conference

Not like many contemporary Joyce experiences, De-familiarizing Readings eschews the theoretical and ideological and as an alternative vegetation itself on less assailable flooring. Its seven striking Joyce students percentage a love of the "stuff" of texts, contexts, and intertexts: information and dates, meals and garments, letters and journals, literary allusions, and different quotidian desiderata.

Dynamic Embodiment for Social Theory: "I move therefore I am"

This booklet offers a chain of ontological investigations into an enough thought of embodiment for the social sciences. educated by way of a brand new realist philosophy of causal powers, it seeks to articulate an idea of dynamic embodiment, one who positions human physique move, and never simply ‘the physique’ on the center of theories of social motion.

Embracing Differences: Transnational Cultural Flows Between Japan and the United States

The omnipresence and recognition of yank purchaser items in Japan have brought on an avalanche of writing laying off mild on diversified facets of this cross-cultural courting. Cultural interactions are frequently observed by means of the time period cultural imperialism, an idea that on shut scrutiny seems to be a hasty oversimplification given the modern cultural interplay among the U.