Does the engagement between science and society pose risks for intelligent scientific practice?

Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa

 
 
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Title Does the engagement between science and society pose risks for intelligent scientific practice?
 
Creator Lotriet, Hugo
 
Subject — Science; society; engagement; activity theory; intelligent scientific practice
Description This paper examines the interaction between science and society. Society considers these interactions as vital to understand and reduce the uncertainty of the impact of scientific activity on society. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the converse situation – whether the engagement of society with scientific activity creates uncertainty (or perceived risks) in terms of scientific practice, and whether there is potential for this engagement to create tensions in terms of the intelligent nature of scientific practice. In order to achieve this, a cultural-historical, activity-based conceptualisation of intelligence is applied to scientific activity and its implications are discussed in terms of science- society interactions.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
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Date 2015-11-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — —
Format application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/td.v11i2.76
 
Source The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa; Vol 11, No 2 (2015); 14 pages 2415-2005 1817-4434
 
Language eng
 
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https://td-sa.net/index.php/td/article/view/76/303
 
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Rights Copyright (c) 2015 Hugo Lotriet https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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