Responsibility in Science and Technology: Elements of a Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9783658110130 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 103 str.

Simone Arnaldi; Luca Bianchi

Opis

The present volume elucidates the scope of responsibility in science and technology governance by way of assimilating insights gleaned from sociological theory and STS and by investigating the ways in which responsibility unfolds in social processes. Drawing on these theoretical perspectives, the volume goes on to review a heuristic model of responsibility. Such a model provides a simple, tentative, though no less coherent analytical framework for further examining the idea of responsibility, its transformations, configurations and contradictions."

Spis treści

Introduction.- Responsibility and Social Action.- Expectations, Action Orientation and Implications for Responsibility.- Science, Technology and Society Relationships as the Background of Responsibility.- A Heuristic Framework for Responsibility.- Conclusions.

O autorze

Simone Arnaldi is post-doctoral research fellow in sociology at the University of Padua, Italy. 

Luca Bianchi is adjunct professor of sociology at the University of Trieste, Italy.

Blurb

The present volume elucidates the scope of responsibility in science and technology governance by way of assimilating insights gleaned from sociological theory and STS and by investigating the ways in which responsibility unfolds in social processes. Drawing on these theoretical perspectives, the volume goes on to review a ‘heuristic model’ of responsibility. Such a model provides a simple, tentative, though no less coherent analytical framework for further examining the idea of responsibility, its transformations, configurations and contradictions.

This concise but insightful and intellectually rich book offers a new departure in the growing corpus on responsible research and innovation. Scholars of both sociology and science and technology studies will be informed, and at times captivated, by the depth and clarity of argument provided by the authors and by its implications for the responsible governance of science and technology.