Social Study of Science and Technology

Calendar

LEC #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
1	Introduction
2	Philosophy of Science I: From Logical Positivism to Antipositivism
3	Sociology of Scientific Knowledge I: The Strong Programme
4	Philosophy of Science II: From Realism to Constructivism and Halfway Back
5	Sociology of Scientific Knowledge II: Networks, Agency, Practice, Assemblage
6	Sociology of Scientific Knowledge III: Institutions and Culture
7	Feminism and Science	Short paper due
8	Cyborgs	Prospectus due
9	Race and Science
10	Biosociality
11	Medicine
12	Rhetoric of Technology: Gramophone, Telephone, Tape, Sampling
13	Technoscientific Makings of Postcolonial Place and Space
14	Class Conference	Research paper due