If science was once seen as rendering neutral hard facts about the world decades of
strengthening the relation between science and politics have ironically diminished the …

The recent commercialization and privatization of scientific research has reconfigured the
organization of science worldwide, fostering new scientific practices and new political tools …

As scientific research moves increasingly to the private sector, the social organization of
science undergoes important transformations. Focusing on the production of ignorance …

With an innovative perspective on the social character of ignorance production, agnotology
has been a fruitful approach for understanding the social and epistemological …

As modern societies have become increasingly technological, science has become both
more important and more politicized. Funding flows into new research fields and out of old …

Since the social turn of the 1980s, the organizing question of the history of science has
been, How is knowledge made? The premise of the field is that matters of fact and scientific …

This paper explores how cultural understandings of the autonomy and responsibility of
science in modern society are manifested in two contemporary science novels about …

The cultural and epistemic status of science is under attack. Social and cultural studies of
science are widely perceived to offer evidence and arguments in support of an anti-science …

This work explores the complex relationship between science and politics. More specifically,
it focuses on the problem of scientism. Scientism is a deformation of science, which …

Although sociologists have explored how political and economic factors influence the
formation of ignorance in science and technology, we know little about how scientists …