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Outlines a position in the sociology of science & technology that moves beyond postmodern concerns for relativism to link relativist & nonrelativist conceptions of knowledge to their respective roles. It is shown that there has been a traditional divide between realist & relativist conceptions of science that has recently been bridged by a common focus on the cultural significance of science & technology. Approaches to the sociology of science & technology that adopt this culturalist perspective are favored because they enlist scientific & technological change as vehicles for cultural criticism & as bases for agendas of cultural renewal. However, scientific advances are felt economically as much as culturally, & the Weberian realist tradition of viewing science as an extension of instrumental rationality has its place. This realist perspective is also applied to the sociology of knowledge itself, in the sense that social scientific knowledge has accumulated over time & thus, has economic & instrumental effects that are independent of any particular cultural component of its production. 46 References. D. M. Smith

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I - Role of Science (Theoretical) -- 1 - The Role of Science in Modern Society -- 2 - Robert Merton's Formulations in Sociology of Science -- PART II - Scientific Community -- 3 - The Emergence of the Indian Scientific Community -- 4 - A Large Community but Few Peers: A Study of the Scientific Community in India -- PART III - Scientific Productivity -- 5 - Scientific Productivity: Sociological Explorations in Indian Academic Science -- 6 - Scientific Goods andT heir Markets -- 7 - Scientific Knowledge in India: From Public Resource to Intellectual Property -- PART IV - Science, Technology and Social Change -- 8 - Science and Social Change: Emergence of a Dual Society in India -- 9 - Is Kerala Becoming a Knowledge Society?-Evidence from the Scientific Community -- 10 - Green RevolutionTechnologies and Dryland Agriculture -- 11 - Traditional Potters and Technological Change in a North Indian Town -- 12 - People's Science: A Perspective from the Voluntary Sector -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix of Sources.

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