Format:
Online-Ressource (284p)
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digital
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
ISBN:
9789401090322
Series Statement:
Sociology of the Sciences 22
Content:
This book explores a little-studied arena that exists between science and technology, an arena in which a singular and important variety of open-ended, multi-purpose instrumentation is developed by practitioners (neither scientist nor engineer, call them research-technologists) for use in academia, industry, state metrology and technical services, and considerably beyond. The generic instrumentation designed in this almost subterraneously institutionalized/professionalized, interstitial arena fuels both science and engineering work. This involves intermittent crossings of the boundaries that demarcate and protect the conventional cognitive and artefact cultures familiar to many historians and sociologists. Research-technologists thereby comprise a distinctive (but never distinct) transverse science and technology culture that generates a species of pragmatic universality, which in turn provides multiple and diversified audiences with a common repertory of vocabularies, notational systems, images, and perhaps even paradigms. Research-technology practitioners deliver a lingua franca that contributes to cognitive, material, and social cohesion. Research-technology is about the complementarity between boundary-crossing and the stability/maintenance of boundaries
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781402002427
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781402002427
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780792367369
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789401090339
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1007/978-94-010-9032-2
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