THE FORCE OF KNOWLEDGE: THE SCIENTIFIC DIMENSION OF SOCIETY
Written by John Ziman
Published by Cambridge University Press
in 1976
ISBN: 0521206499
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- SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Front cover
Contents
- 1. Science as a social institution
- 2. Which came first: science or technology?
- 3. Who was a scientist?
- 4. Styles of research
- 5. Scientific communication
- 6. Authority and Influence
- 7. From craft to science
- 8. Invention, research and industrial innovation
- 9. Big science
- 10. Paying for science
- 11. Science as a cultural import
- 12. The sciences of society
- 13. Science and war
- 14. Science and social need