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The book offers new theoretical perspectives on innovation, analyzes innovation processes in diverse innovation fields, and presents case studies that reflect the diversity of innovations fields. To what extent and in what sense does innovation characterize our societies today? Innovations are no longer limited to the economic sphere; we find them in almost all areas of society today. Diverse actors generate innovations in different, increasingly reflexive ways. New concepts, practices, and institutional forms such as open source, crowdfunding, or citizen panels expand the spectrum.  Contents - Perspectives of social theory and theories of society - Innovation fields between economy and culture - Innovation fields between politics, planning, and social movements - Innovation fields between science and public policy Audience Students and scholars of sociology and social theory; economics; political science; cultural sciences; science, technology, and society studies (STS); and innovation studies  The Editors Dr. Werner Rammert is professor (em.) of sociology at TU Berlin. Dr. Arnold Windeler is professor of sociology at TU Berlin. Dr. Hubert Knoblauch is professor of sociology at TU Berlin. Dr. Michael Hutter is professor (em.) of sociology at TU Berlin.

Technological innovations --- Social aspects. --- Technology—Sociological aspects. --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Knowledge - Discourse. --- Sociology. --- Social theory --- Social sciences

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The exploration of ways to conceptualize the shaping of the present by socio‐technical futures is the aim of this volume. Therefore it brings together contributions from Science and Technology Studies and Technology Assessment, which focus all on the question how socio-technical images of the future shape present processes of innovation and transformation starting from empirical case studies and generalizing specific findings or by tackling conceptual questions from the outset. A white paper of 23 authors, which aims to sensitize researchers and practitioners completes the volume. Contents Analytical Concepts, Different Kinds and Patterns of Socio-Technical Futures.- Socio-Technical Futures in Different Processes of Change.- Intervening into the Present Through Prospective Reasoning.- White Paper. Target Groups Researchers and students from social sciences and humanities The Editors Andreas Lösch is senior research scientist at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) and private lecturer for sociology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Armin Grunwald is director of the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), full professor of philosophy and ethics of technology at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and heads the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB). Martin Meister is a research associate at the Department of Sociology, Chair on Sociology of Technology and Innovation at Technical University of Berlin. Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer is full professor of sociology and head of the sociology of technology and innovation group at the Department of Sociology at Technical University of Berlin.

Technology --- Social aspects. --- Philosophy. --- Technology—Sociological aspects. --- Philosophy of Technology. --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities

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This book provides a critical reflection on automated science and addresses the question whether the computational tools we developed in last decades are changing the way we humans do science. More concretely: Can machines replace scientists in crucial aspects of scientific practice? The contributors to this book re-think and refine some of the main concepts by which science is understood, drawing a fascinating picture of the developments we expect over the next decades of human-machine co-evolution. The volume covers examples from various fields and areas, such as molecular biology, climate modeling, clinical medicine, and artificial intelligence. The explosion of technological tools and drivers for scientific research calls for a renewed understanding of the human character of science. This book aims precisely to contribute to such a renewed understanding of science.

Science --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy. --- Technology—Sociological aspects. --- Philosophy of Technology. --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities

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This book offers a clear analysis of Foucault’s work on scientific knowledge and its relationship to individuals and society. It suggests a way of using Foucault’s tools for science criticism and resistance, while avoiding the pitfalls of vulgar relativism or irrational anti-science views. Two cases of scientific conflict are considered. The first considers left-handers as subjects of science, in particular studies which purport to show that left-handers die on average younger than right-handers. The second case considers Icelanders as subjects of science in the context of a partly failed attempt to construct a genetic database encompassing the entire nation.The book will be of interest to bioethicists and philosophers who are concerned with the interaction between science and its human subjects, as well as scholars concerned with Foucault’s work on science.

Science --- Technology—Sociological aspects. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Philosophy. --- Philosophy and science. --- Science and philosophy

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Sports, Society, and Technology: Bodies, Practices, and Knowledge Production addresses the complex entanglements of science, technology, and sporting cultures. The collection explores themes around human and non-human actants, knowledge formations and processes, and the materiality and multiplicity of bodies through an engagement with the interdisciplinary fields of Sport Studies and Science and Technology Studies. Representing a range of methodological, theoretical, and disciplinary approaches, contributors interrogate the social, cultural, political, and historical intersections of an ever-expanding techno-scientific sporting landscape – from true bounce and brain trauma to exercise physiology, metrics, and esports, and from feminist technoscience, whey protein, and epigenetics to sickle cell screening and testosterone regulation.

Sports --- Sociology of sports --- Sociology --- Sociological aspects. --- Technology—Sociological aspects. --- Sports—Sociological aspects. --- Science and Technology Studies. --- Sociology of Sport and Leisure.