ABSTRACT

Taylor proposes the question, “How do we make sense of radical scientists and critics of science in relation to their changing contexts?” After identifying individuals who came to STS after being involved in popular movements of the 1970s, contesting the directions taken in science and technology, he proposes three themes to guide inquiry into the question: transitions, transversals, and tensions. Each of these themes illustrate how different directions (resistance, revival, resignation, ramifications, regularities, reframing), marked shifts in the focus of the intellectual work and lives for some (or perhaps many) of those individuals. These transitions can be seen as linked into a transversal project of exploring ways to stimulate researchers (and students training to become researchers) to self-consciously examine the complexity of their social situatedness so as to change the ways they address the complexity of the situations they study.

摘要

泰勒提出了一个问题：“我们如何看待激进的科学家和科学评论家关于不断变化的环境的意义？” 在确定了参与1970年代流行运动后进入STS的个人之后，对科学和技术的发展方向提出了质疑，他提出了三个主题来指导对这个问题的研究：转变，横向和紧张。这些主题中的每个主题都说明了不同方向（抵抗，复兴，辞职，分枝，规律性，重新构架）如何明显地改变了其中一些（或许多）人的智力工作和生活重点。