NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Tacit Knowledge
28 Nov 2013
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Klienman is there tension b/w democracy and expertise b/c experts are an elite (minority) making decision for the masses. Wants individuals to have a say in the decision process through ordinary voting on what is going to count as science (not saying you can make decisions for everything). Views like this can lead to experts being undermined / losing their status. Collins and evans are giving another view diff idea of demos: often the more ppl involved the more legitimate it is, but what does that do to the status of expertise. Shouldn"t the opinion of experts count for more than others (views count for more than others in decision making). Using this model of demos they add on the concern of expertise and their knowledge. No, we have to rethink how we think of expertise. Page 23 has quotes on the tension b/w politics and science. We know expertise is not perfect and partial (klienman), they agree.
