Out of the Labs and into the Streets: Scientists Get Political |
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Authors: | Norah MacKendrick |
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Institution: | Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey |
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Abstract: | Scientists are participating in more visible and vocal forms of political action. In this essay, I sketch key moments in this shift, with the hope of generating new research questions and lines of sociological inquiry. Specifically, I ponder whether this is a new wave of science activism, and if so, how is it different from past forms of science activism? I also ask whether and in what form we, as sociologists, should “stand up for science”? |
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Keywords: | activism intellectual movements policy politics public science sociology |
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