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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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Front cover

Cover of THE FORCE OF KNOWLEDGE: THE SCIENTIFIC DIMENSION OF SOCIETY by John Ziman

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