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There has been a failure of communication across a gap between philosophical and sociological analyses of academic science, on the one hand, and, on the other, attempts to understand the social implications of technology. Ziman has rendered an important service in presenting a unified picture, bringing out clearly many mutual interactions and relationships between various aspects of these different fields. Connections are emphasized in the book by extensive cross-referencing between different sections. It may be said that the author chooses a path leading, with many worthwhile diversions, from the philosophy of pure science to the politiCS and economics of 'big science' and technology, by way of the sociology of the scien tific community and of scientific knowledge. (It may be interesting for a future text book writer to take this trip in the opposite direction!) His account incorporates the ideas of key thinkers in these fields, and he devotes some space to discussing the changes brought about since the second world war by greatly increased research and developmen t spending -changes which he describes as leading to the 'collectivization' of science. The ethos of science has been

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Publisher

Beech Tree Publishing; Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press (OUP) (ISSN 0302-3427)

Published

1985

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences