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Nanotechnology has been the subject of extensive assessment hype, unlike any previous field of research and development. A multiplicity of stakeholders have started to analyze the implications of nanotechnology: Technology assessment institutions around the world, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, re-insurance companies, and academics from science and technology studies and applied ethics have turned their attention to this growing field s implications. In the course of these assessment efforts, a social phenomenon has emerged a phenomenon the editors define as assessment...

Nanotechnology has been the subject of extensive assessment hype, unlike any previous field of research and development. A multiplicity of stakeholders have started to analyze the implications of nanotechnology: Technology assessment institutions around the world, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, re-insurance companies, and academics from science and technology studies and applied ethics have turned their attention to this growing field s implications. In the course of these assessment efforts, a social phenomenon has emerged a phenomenon the editors define as assessment...

Kann Wissenschaft ein Gegenstand nicht nur fur Erkenntniskritik und historische Analyse, sondern auch fur die Soziologie sein? Lange hiess es: nein Spatestens mit Robert K. Merton andert sich dies: Seither beschaftigt sich eine Wissenschaftssoziologie mit der Frage, wie die Produktion, Verbreitung und Geltung gesicherten Wissens moglich sind.

Das erhebliche Inventar an Theorien und Methoden, das zur Beantwortung dieser Frage zur Verfugung steht, verdankt sich der Soziologie als Heimatdisziplin der Wissenschaftssoziologie angereichert hat sie es durch ihre Eingliederung in eine...