Beyond epistemology: Relativism and engagement in the politics of science
Beyond epistemology: Relativism and engagement in the politics of science
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DOI：
10.1177/030631296026002008
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发表时间：
1996-05-01
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3
通讯作者：
Jasanoff, S
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作者：
Jasanoff, S
近年来，越来越清楚的是，科学和技术的社会研究工作可以被挪用，或有意识地部署，为政治目的服务。相应地，这一领域的学者在涉及科学和技术的争议中选择立场的压力也在增加。本文认为，“共同生产”-知识和社会秩序的同时生产-为理解科学与社会之间的关系以及学者在这种关系中的作用提供了比“争论”更令人满意的概念框架。通过反思性的、批判性的学术研究，而不是通过在定义明确但偶然的争议中认同明显的“赢家”或“输家”，可以更好地实现政治参与。在选择研究地点、解释风格和阐明规范立场的方法时，反身性尤其可取。
In recent years, it has become increasingly clear that work in the social studies of science and technology can be appropriated, or consciously deployed, to serve political ends. Correspondingly, pressure has risen on scholars in this field to choose sides in controversies involving science and technology. This paper argues that 'co-production' - the simultaneous production of knowledge and social order - provides a more satisfying conceptual framework than 'controversy' for understanding the relationship between science and society, and she scholar's role in that relationship. Political engagement is better achieved through reflexive, critical scholarship than through identification with apparent 'winners' or 'losers' in well-defined but contingent controversies. Reflexivity is especially desirable when selecting sites for research, styles of explanation, and methods of articulating normative positions.