ANTHRO 128B Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Environmental Working Group
"10 Americans" by Environmental Working Group
What is Science and Technology Studies?
What does the genetics of sex show?
Accumulation of knowledge
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Why did people in the past believe fundamentally different things than present?
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Not simply the accumulation of facts over time
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Scientific claims do not necessarily gain acceptance because they are true
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"Paradigm shirt" --> how science moves forward and is constantly changing
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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History of science prior to the 1960s
What is a fact?
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How do scientists agree that something is a fact?
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Why did scientists of the past accept facts that we now know to be false?
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How do laypeople come to accept or reject facts?
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New Questions
Anthropology has traditionally studied non Western, small scale societies, and disadvantaged
groups
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Affected anthropological theories of power
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Study Up
Social Sciences
Biological Sciences
Society
Nature
Culture
Race
Gender
Sex
Illness
Disease
Kinship systems
Biological Parenthood
Not every culture makes this same distinction and the closest words used are significantly
different
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Ex: nature in another language may be closer to what we would call wild
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Marilyn Strathem
What exactly do scientists do?
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How do they communicate what they find to each other and the public?
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What is the role of instruments and experimental systems?
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Must study "science in action" as it is unfolding in real time
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How to study science?
How to create a language that does not separate science from society?
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Focuses on the material production of males and females in molecular genetic research of sex
determination
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How should the social sciences study the materiality of "nature"?
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