That sciences are guided by explicit and implicit ties to their
surrounding social world is not new. Jaan Valsiner fills in the
wide background of scholarship on the history of science, the
recent focus on social studies of sciences, and the cultural and
cognitive analyses of knowledge making. The theoretical scheme that
he uses to explain the phenomena of social guidance of science
comes from his thinking about processes of development in
general--his theory of bounded indeterminacy--and on the relations
of human beings with their culturally organized environments.
Valsiner examines reasons for the slow and nonlinear progress of
ideas in psychology as a science at the border of natural and
social sciences. Why is that intellectual progress occurs in
different countries at different times? Most responses are
self-serving blinders for presenting science as a given rather than
understanding it as a deeply human experience. For Valsiner,
scientific knowledge is cultural at its core.
Major changes have occurred in contemporary sciences--collective
authorship, fragmentation of knowledge into small, quickly
published (and equally quickly retractable) journal articles, and
the counting of numbers of such articles by institutions as if that
is a measure of "scientific productivity." Scientists are
inherently ambivalent about the benefit of these changes for the
actual development of knowledge. There is a gradual "takeover" of
the domain of scientific knowledge creation by other social
institutions with vested interests in defending and promoting
knowledge that serves their social interests. Sciences are entering
into a new form of social servitude.
General
Imprint: |
AldineTransaction
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
2012 |
First published: |
2017 |
Authors: |
Jaan Valsiner
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
352 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4128-4290-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
General
|
LSN: |
1-4128-4290-5 |
Barcode: |
9781412842907 |
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