Description as Intervention: Engagement and Resistance in Actor-Network Analyses
Description as Intervention: Engagement and Resistance in Actor-Network Analyses
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作为干预的描述：行动者网络分析中的参与和阻力
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10.1080/09505430701568701
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发表时间：
2007
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Signe Vikkelsø
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作者：
Signe Vikkelsø
几十年前，人们普遍抱怨社会科学不是中立的，而是政治性的，产生的科学结果是左派或保守派的伪装。目前，人们担心的是，许多社会科学已经远离了行动，远离了实用性，而是产生了无菌的抽象和自我自由的对话，或者停留在描述和轶事的水平上。据推测，这两种方法都没有什么实际用途。在政治和行政层面上，这种关注引起了对社会科学的可用性或适用性的强烈关注。在社会科学中，人们越来越有兴趣发展新的理论和方法，以便在研究和其他实践之间建立更密切的联系。诸如“模式2”的概念（Gibbons等人，1994; Nowotny等人，2003年）和“参与奖学金”（货车德Ven，2007年）标志着这一雄心。同样，行动研究正在复兴，以对抗“在现代发展起来的过于安静的知识生成传统”（Reason and Bradbury，2001，第23页）。这期特刊的主题可以看作是对这一不断变化的形势的回应。在STS中，行动导向的概念可以作为一个总括术语，用于建议STS研究也与实践者一起参与现实生活中的实验，以探索，评估和阐明一个不断变化的世界。这种“干预主义”方法试图以各种方式将联合收割机的要求与骗子的角色结合起来，骗子不断地从一个利益相关者转向另一个利益相关者，并探索如何以政治敏感的方式实际调和他们的关注（Rip，1994年; Pors等人，2002; Zuiderent，2002）。但是，社会科学真的必须重新发明自己，找到全新的科学实践才能变得有用并准备好采取行动吗？在本文中，我将科学作为文化，第16卷，第3期，297-309，2007年9月
Some decades ago it was a common complaint that social science was not neutral but political, producing scientific results that were leftist or conservative statements in disguise. Currently, the concern is rather that much social science has moved away from action, from practical usefulness, instead producing sterile abstractions and selfreferential conversations or staying at the level of description and anecdote-telling. Both of which, it is assumed, are of little practical use. On political and administrative levels this concern has given rise to a strong focus on the usability or applicability of social science. And within social science there is a growing interest to develop new theories and methods in order to establish closer links between research and other practices. Concepts such as ‘mode 2’ (Gibbons et al., 1994; Nowotny et al., 2003) and ‘engaged scholarship’ (Van de Ven, 2007) signal this ambition. Similarly, action-research is being revived to counter the ‘overly quietist tradition of knowledge generation which has developed in the modern era’ (Reason and Bradbury, 2001, p. xxiii). The theme of this special issue can be seen as a response to this changing situation. Within STS the idea of action-orientation can be used as an umbrella term for texts which propose that STS research also engages in real-life experiments alongside practitioners in order to explore, evaluate and articulate a world that continues to change. This ‘interventionist’ methodology seeks in various ways to combine the request for helping practice with the role of the trickster, who constantly shifts sides from one stakeholder to the other and explores the way their concerns can be practically reconciled in a politically sensitized way (Rip, 1994; Pors et al., 2002; Zuiderent, 2002). But is it really the case that social science has to re-invent itself and find whole new scientific practices in order to become useful and ready for action? In this paper, I will Science as Culture Vol. 16, No. 3, 297–309, September 2007