The social life of science 3940

This course examines science and technology as social institutions, belief systems, and practices with an emphasis on how socioeconomic, political, and cultural variables affect scientific ideas and technological applications. The first part of the course, "The Sociology of Science," Sessions 1 to 12, examines science as an institutionalized culture that produces and explains knowledge about the world using sociological and other social scientific frameworks.

Science and technology as social institutions, belief-systems, and practices are examined in this course, with a focus on how cultural, political, and socio-economic dynamics influence scientific thought and technical applications. Using sociological and other social scientific frameworks, the first section of the course ('The Sociology of Science,' Sessions 1 to 12) views science as an institutionalized culture that explains and creates knowledge about the world.

This course examines science and technology as social institutions, belief-systems, and practices, focusing on how cultural, political, and socio-economic processes influence scientific thought and technical applications. "The Sociology of Science," Sessions 1–12, views science as an organized culture that explains and creates knowledge about the world.