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The Social Direction of the Public Sciences

Causes and Consequences of Co-operation between Scientists and Non-scientific Groups

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Editors:
  1. Stuart Blume

    1. Department of Science Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Joske Bunders

    1. Department of Biology and Society, The Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. Loet Leydesdorff

    1. Department of Science Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  4. Richard Whitley

    1. Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

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Part of the book series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook (SOSC, volume 11)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  3. Collaborations between Scientists and Non-Scientists at the Grassroots

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Cooperation between Medical Researchers and a Self-Help Movement: The Case of the German Retinitis Pigmentosa Society

      • Rainald Von Gizycki
      Pages 75-88

    3. The Knowledge Interests of the Environmental Movement and its Potential for Influencing the Development of Science

      • Jacqueline Cramer, Ron Eyerman, Andrew Jamison
      Pages 89-115

    4. The Scientist, the Fisherman, and the Oyster Farmer

      • Georges Benguigui
      Pages 117-133

    5. What We Have Learned from the Amsterdam Science Shop

      • Loet Leydesdorff, Peter Van Den Besselaar
      Pages 135-160

  6. Epilogue

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 329-329
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    2. The Causes and Consequences of Collaborations between Scientists and Non-Scientific Groups

      • Joske Bunders, Loet Leydesdorff
      Pages 331-347

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 349-359
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About this book

This volume of the Sociology of the Sciences Yearbooks stems from our experience that collaborations between non-scientists and scientists, often initiated by scientists seeking greater social relevance for science, can be of major importance for cognitive development. It seemed to us that it would be useful to explore the conditions under which such collaborations affect scientific change and the nature of the processes involved. This book therefore focuses on a number of instances in which scientists and non-scientists were jointly involved in the genera­ tion of scientific results at the "interface" of science and society. Despite the considerable variety of cases reported here, a number of questions are central. Under what conditions do such cooperative processes occur? What perceptions of social relevance and what sorts of col­ laborations with non-scientific groups are involved? How is this collaboration achieved, and through what forums? How can insights into its conditions and mechanisms stabilize such cooperations over a longer period of time? If they are stabilized, do they really affect science, or do they mainly function to shield the rest of the science system against external influences? These questions are pertinent both to intellectual problems in the sociology of science and to the practical concerns of modern science policies. The significance of relations between knowledge producers and knowledge consumers and interest in how these relations affect science and society have changed considerably in recent decades.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Science Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Stuart Blume, Loet Leydesdorff

  • Department of Biology and Society, The Free University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Joske Bunders

  • Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK

    Richard Whitley

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Social Direction of the Public Sciences

  • Book Subtitle: Causes and Consequences of Co-operation between Scientists and Non-scientific Groups

  • Editors: Stuart Blume, Joske Bunders, Loet Leydesdorff, Richard Whitley

  • Series Title: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3755-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company 1987

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2381-9Published: 31 May 1987

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-2382-6Published: 31 May 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-3755-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0167-2320

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1796

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 360

  • Topics: Social History

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