The Floating Ampersand: STS Past and STS to Come

Sheila Jasanoff

doi:10.17351/ests2016.78

The Floating Ampersand: STS Past and STS to Come

Sheila Jasanoff Harvard University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2016.78

Keywords: science and technology studies, institutionalization, disciplines, interdisciplinarity

Abstract

STS has become a discipline in the sense that it offers new ways to read and make sense of the world. It remains an amalgam, however, of two linked yet separate lines of inquiry, both abbreviated as STS. Science and technology studies refers to the investigation of S&T as social institutions; science, technology and society, by contrast, analyzes the external relations of S&T with other institutions, such as law or politics. This essay reflects on the implications of this ambiguity for institutionalizing STS as a field of its own, drawing on the author’s experiences in building STS at two universities.

Published

01 Jul 2016

Issue

Vol. 2 (2016)

Section

Thematic Collections

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