To what extent is the normative commitment of STS to the democratization of science a product of the democratic contexts where it is most often produced? STS scholars have historically offered a powerful critical lens through which to understand the social construction of science, and seminal contributions in this area have outlined ways in which citizens have improved both the conduct of science and its outcomes. Yet, with few exceptions, it remains that most STS scholarship has eschewed study of more problematic cases of public engagement of science in rich, supposedly mature Western democracies, as well as examination of science-making in poorer, sometimes non-democratic contexts. How might research on problematic cases and dissimilar political contexts traditionally neglected by STS scholars push the field forward in new ways? This paper responds to themes that came out of papers from two Eastern Sociological Society Presidential Panels on Science and Technology Studies in an Era of Anti-Science. It considers implications of the normative commitment by sociologists working in the STS tradition to the democratization of science.

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重新考虑科学与民主

STS对科学民主化的规范性承诺在何种程度上是最经常产生科学民主化的民主背景的产物？STS学者历来为理解科学的社会建构提供了强有力的批判性镜头，在这一领域的开创性贡献概述了公民改善科学行为及其成果的方式。然而，除了少数例外，大多数STS奖学金都避开了对富裕，据说是成熟的西方民主国家公众参与科学的更多有问题案例的研究，以及在较贫穷，有时是非民主的背景下研究科学的研究。STS学者传统上忽视的问题案例和不同政治背景的研究如何以新的方式推动这一领域的发展？本文回应了来自反社会时代两个东方社会科学学会主席关于科学技术研究的主题。它考虑了从事STS传统的社会学家的规范承诺对科学民主化的影响。