NATS 1760 Chapter Notes -Tacit Knowledge, Relational Theory, Nelson Goodman
19 Jun 2013
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The canonical model of science did not coincide with the practice itself. It was rather a growing public distrust in science from highly visible failures of major technologies and the disasters associated with them. Political movements associated with environmentalism and animal rights have caused distrust in science and technology, but social sciences have been facing. Have given rise to weltanschauung we no longer understand how to balance science and technology against general opinion. The book is meant to make a contribution to the process in which experts acquire expert status, not intended to add to the analysis. To treat an expertise as real and substantive is to treat it as something other than relational. The notion that expertise is only an attribution (label) is an example of a relational theory. Acquiring expertise is therefore a social process but its not just attribution of a social group (takes a lot of time and effort)
