{"product_id":"rethinking-science-9780745626086","title":"ReThinking Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA A sequel to the authors previous widely acclaimed work on science, technology and society  A Develops a highly original account of the changing notions of science and scientific knowledge A A well, written accessible text that makes good use of illustrative examples A The authors are leading scholars in the field.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'What you always wanted to know about the \"knowledge society\", Nowotny, Scott and Gibbons are telling it in \u003ci\u003eRe-Thinking Science\u003c\/i\u003e, the sequel to their much acclaimed book \u003ci\u003eThe New Production of Knowledge (1994)\u003c\/i\u003e. This is a splendid book, full of empirical insight and intellectual vision. \u003ci\u003eRe-Thinking Science\u003c\/i\u003e is reliable and robust at the same time.' \u003ci\u003eWolf Lepenies, Rektor, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'The authors take us beyond the dichotomies of science and society in their ovular new work, \u003ci\u003eRe-Thinking Science\u003c\/i\u003e, into a new agora of interactive forces in which old institutional boundaries of science, industry and government are transcended. \u003ci\u003eRe-Thinking Science\u003c\/i\u003e re-thinks society.' \u003ci\u003eHenry Etzkowitz, Director, Science Policy Institute, State University of New York at Purchase\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'This book goes far beyond \u003ci\u003eThe New Production of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), the earlier collection of essays by Michael Gibbons, Helga Nowotny and others. That book launched the debate on the trend towards a new regime for the production of knowledge and the practice of research ... \u003ci\u003eRe-Thinking Science\u003c\/i\u003e revisits these themes in the form of a single brilliant essay in social theory ... a splendid vision of a probable future world, in which science and society will increasingly overlap and be exposed to the growing expertise and contesting forces of the agora.' \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'This book is packed with novel and quite complicated ideas ... We look forward to a further harvest of sharp observations and deep interpretations in the next product from this outstanding scholarly team.' \u003ci\u003eInterdisciplinary Science Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'an enourmously important book, which deserves to be widely read and discussed.' \u003ci\u003eScience as Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book could be influential in providing sustenance to higher education managers as they struggle to find new definitions of what it means to be a university. Political leaders too would do well to study it in order to move their policy-making away from dependence on mode 1 ideas. The vision of the science of the future outlined in the book could perhaps have gone further. However, there is a balance to be struck between being influential and being visionary. This book will clearly be influential. The vision will hopefully grow.\" \u003ci\u003eStudies in Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface. \u003cp\u003eChapter 1: The Transformation of Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Beyond Modernity - Breaching the Frontiers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3: The Co-Evolution of Science and Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4: The Context Speaks Back.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5: The Transformation of Knowledge Institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6: The Role of Universities in Knowledge Production.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7: How does Contextualization Happen?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8: Weakly Contextualized Knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Strongly Contextualized Knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Contextualization in the Middle Range.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11: From Reliable Knowledge to Socially Robust Knowledge.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12: The Epistemological Core?.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13: Science Moves to the \u003ci\u003eAgora\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14: Socially Distributed Expertise.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15: Re-Visioning Science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16: Re-Thinking Science is not Science Re-Thought.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767973970263,"sku":"9780745626086","price":22.52,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745626086.jpg?v=1758715747","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/rethinking-science-9780745626086","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}