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The Professional Quest For Truth
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Book Synopsis The Professional Quest for Truth by : Stephan Fuchs
Download or read book The Professional Quest for Truth written by Stephan Fuchs and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-07-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the power of science as the most respected and authoritative world view is based on its superior material and organizational resources, not on its superior rationality. Fuchs approaches science as a social construct, and utilizing a theory of scientific organizations, he analyzes knowledge production in scientific fields—how they differ in their resources and how these differences affect how science is conducted. The book explains why certain fields produce science and facts, while others engage in hermeneutics and conversation; why certain specialities change through cumulation rather than fragmentation; and why some fields are relativistic while others are positivist in their self-understanding. This general theory of knowledge is applicable not only to science, but to all varieties of professional groups engaged in knowledge production.
Book Synopsis Reconfiguring Truth by : Steven C. Ward
Download or read book Reconfiguring Truth written by Steven C. Ward and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This refreshingly original book links the postmodern critique of notions such as "reality" and "truth" with approaches to knowledge found in science and technology studies (STS), a field also discontent with traditional epistemology. Exploring STS approaches to knowledge, such as actor-network theory, Ward forges a path through the impasse of the modernism vs. postmodernism debate. Reconfiguring Knowledge is an important work for social scientists and theorists, philosophers, historians, and scholars of science and technology.
Book Synopsis Assembling Health Care Organizations by : K. Lindberg
Download or read book Assembling Health Care Organizations written by K. Lindberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembling Health Care Organizations combines an institutional theory perspective with a materialist view of the technologies, devices, biological specimens, and other material resources mobilized and put to work in health care work.
Book Synopsis Minority Report by : William T. Lynch
Download or read book Minority Report written by William T. Lynch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philip K. Dick’s The Minority Report, ‘precogs’, who are imaginary individuals capable of seeing the future are relied upon to stop crime, with a consensus report synthesized from two of three precogs. When the protaganist is indicted for a future murder, he suspects a conspiracy and seeks out the “minority report,” detailing the suppressed testimony of the third precog. Science works a lot like this science fiction story. Contrary to the view that scientists in a field all share the same “paradigm,” as Thomas Kuhn famously argued, scientists support different, and competing, research programs. Statements of scientific consensus need to be actively synthesized from the work of different scientists. Not all scientific work will be equally credited by science as a whole. While this system works well enough for most purposes, it is possible for minority views to fail to get the hearing that they deserve. This book analyzes the support that should be given to minority views, reconsidering classic debates in science and technology studies and examining numerous case studies.
Download or read book The Idea of the University written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Idea of the University by : Jerzy Brzeziński
Download or read book The Idea of the University written by Jerzy Brzeziński and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Science-Based Innovation by : A. Styhre
Download or read book Science-Based Innovation written by A. Styhre and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-02-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge management has become a well-known term, but science-based innovation remains relatively unexploited. Bridging the gap between knowledge management theory and studies of science of technology, such as in the pharmaceutical industry and biotechnology firms, this book provides a timely insight into the innovation of the knowledge economy.
Book Synopsis The Challenges of Ivan Illich by : Lee Hoinacki
Download or read book The Challenges of Ivan Illich written by Lee Hoinacki and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-07-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original essays explore the thought and influence of philosopher, educator, social critic, and theologian Ivan Illich.
Book Synopsis Selective Remembrances by : Philip L. Kohl
Download or read book Selective Remembrances written by Philip L. Kohl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When political geography changes, how do reorganized or newly formed states justify their rule and create a sense of shared history for their people? Often, the essays in Selective Remembrances reveal, they turn to archaeology, employing the field and its findings to develop nationalistic feelings and forge legitimate distinctive national identities. Examining such relatively new or reconfigured nation-states as Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, India, and Thailand, Selective Remembrances shows how states invoke the remote past to extol the glories of specific peoples or prove claims to ancestral homelands. Religion has long played a key role in such efforts, and the contributors take care to demonstrate the tendency of many people, including archaeologists themselves, to view the world through a religious lens—which can be exploited by new regimes to suppress objective study of the past and justify contemporary political actions. The wide geographic and intellectual range of the essays in Selective Remembrances will make it a seminal text for archaeologists and historians.
Book Synopsis Publishing in the Organizational Sciences by : L. L. Cummings
Download or read book Publishing in the Organizational Sciences written by L. L. Cummings and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 1995-02-10 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a ′must-have′ book. It is a primer to publishing for all Ph.D. students and junior faculty members. --Anne Tsui, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Irvine "The most difficult transitions faced by entering doctoral students are those associated with (1) becoming a scholar rather than a student and (2) moving from the business world to the academy. What is research? What is quality research? What skills are required to produce a quality manuscript? What role does the journal system serve and how does it work? How are manuscripts refereed? What do professors at research universities do? How are they evaluated and rewarded? What does it take to be successful as a scholar at a research-oriented academic institution? These and other issues are effectively addressed through the 28 thought-provoking yet entertaining essays of unusually consistent quality contained in Publishing in the Organizational Sciences. The essays are timeless, promoting journeys and treks through a landscape that is otherwise unlikely to be encountered. Students love the book and the conversations it promotes. I cannot think of a more appropriate vehicle for introducing these critically important issues to the next generation of scholars in the organizational sciences." --Robert W. Zmud, Department of Information and Management Sciences, Florida State University Presenting a range of analytical and emotional issues, Publishing in the Organizational Sciences is a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the publishing process. Unique in its content, this volume is written especially for the prospective author/scholar who wants to learn more about the field to advance their career and publishing success. Some of the topics covered in this provocative volume are the manuscript review process, publication system, newcomers′ perspectives, values, reviewing manuscripts, rejection, becoming a reviewer, and editorial process. More than just a "how-to" book, Cummings and Frost examine the process from the perspective of the writers, reviewers, editors, and readers, ranging from the newcomer to the established scholar. The authors explain the entire context of scholarly publishing and how it should work toward advancing knowledge and successful management practice. This comprehensive, detailed volume is a must for students and professionals in organization and management studies.
Book Synopsis Beyond the Myths about the Natural and Social Sciences by : Katarina Prpić
Download or read book Beyond the Myths about the Natural and Social Sciences written by Katarina Prpić and published by Katarina Prpic. This book was released on 2009 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Museum Ethics in Practice by : Gary Edson
Download or read book Museum Ethics in Practice written by Gary Edson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a guide to the difficult ethical questions museums work entails. While promoting the value of ethical theory and practice in museums, Edson tackles several key controversies and also corrects a number of prevailing misconceptions about museum ethics, such as the difference between social morals and professional ethics as they relate to the museum context. Drawing on the author’s extensive teaching experience, Museum Ethics in Practice offers clear and practical guidance on the application of ethics to the museum profession. Using example-driven arguments that incorporate varied case studies from around the world, this book is an excellent resource for museum studies students and professionals currently working in museums.
Book Synopsis Modernizing the Mind by : Steven C. Ward
Download or read book Modernizing the Mind written by Steven C. Ward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did fidgety children begin to suffer from attention deficit disorder? How did frightened people come to be called paranoid? Why are we considered to have emotional intelligence and not simply caring personalities? While psychological knowledge began in the relative isolation of laboratories and universities, it has since permeated various professions, institutions, and everyday life. Society and our conceptions of self have fundamentally changed with psychology's modernization of the mind. Ward provides a social and cultural history of the spread of psychological knowledge, assessing the way this proliferation has reconfigured society's meaning, and the way people view themselves and others. Using ideas borrowed from science and technology studies, the sociology of culture, and the sociology of organizations, Ward examines how American psychology established itself as the central purveyor of truth about the mind and self in the 20th century. He examines how psychology has essentially become common knowledge, and his innovative account offers a novel theory about the growth and influence of numerous different knowledge forms.
Book Synopsis Scholarly Book Reviewing in the Social Sciences and Humanities by : Ylva Lindholm-Romantschuk
Download or read book Scholarly Book Reviewing in the Social Sciences and Humanities written by Ylva Lindholm-Romantschuk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-01-26 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the flow of information within and among academic disciplines in the social sciences and humanities through analyses of the patterns of scholarly book reviewing. An elite sample of scholarly monographs published by university presses between 1971 and 1990 was used. Beginning with Derek de Solla Price, the measurement of communication within the disciplines of science has been ongoing. In the present book that field of inquiry is summarized and provides a basis for examining the flow of information in the social sciences and humanities.
Book Synopsis Toward a Democratic Science by : Richard Harvey Brown
Download or read book Toward a Democratic Science written by Richard Harvey Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important book, a leading authority in the field of social theory and communication shows how science is a rhetorical and narrative activity--a story well told. Richard Harvey Brown argues that expert knowledge is a form of power and explains how a narrative view of science can integrate science within a democratic civic discourse, as in the movement for environmental justice in the United States.
Book Synopsis Desecration, Danger, Deliverance by : Martin Weber
Download or read book Desecration, Danger, Deliverance written by Martin Weber and published by Review and Herald Pub Assoc. This book was released on 2002 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the myth of the rapture and shows what the Bible actually teaches about Armageddon, the tribulation, the antichrist, and the Second Coming of Jesus.
Book Synopsis A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions by : Kim Paffenroth
Download or read book A Reader's Companion to Augustine's Confessions written by Kim Paffenroth and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a tool for teaching and studying the great Christian classic, Augustine's Confessions. It is a unique venture in which thirteen different scholars look at each of the thirteen books in the Confessions and interpret their chapters in light of that book and in light of the rest of Augustine's work. The result is that the richness and ambiguity of Augustine's work shines through as well as the richness and ambiguity of different readings of the Confessions.
