STS200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Bruno Latour, Strong Programme, Gerrymandering
22 Mar 2016
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Social construcion denies naive realism and _____ intelligent minimalist, and empiricist accounts of science, which may or may not end in radical ________ about scieniic authority or truth . There are no theory neutral facts in normal science. Revoluionary science happens when we choose to completely swap out our paradigm. Hume: science is not merely an empirical pracice causaion as raionalist, inducion as custom. Popperl falsiicaion does not supply truth or proof. Kuhn: science is the theory laden( it its facts to paradigms) V: late modernity: social construcion( &friends, the social construcion of reality ( boges and lukewarm ?) Basic sociological thinking ( pg 24) a: reality is at least parially a product of human making knowing is making, examples. People get cut of to their technological networks. There was a very negaive impact and people take noice( it is signiicant).
