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Dinosaur family values: The cultural construction of scientific value concepts in nineteenth and twentieth century western literatures.

机译:恐龙家庭价值观:19世纪和20世纪西方文学中科学价值观念的文化建构。

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Attempts to define the nature and role of science in Western culture are multiple and conflicting, and often devolve to simple competitive evaluations; science is said to be “better” than the arts, or literature is lauded as a more “humanistic” enterprise. What these sorts of arguments fail to address is the apparent lack of an agreed upon positive content or definition of “science.” In an attempt to ameliorate this lack, this project examines the role of scientific value concepts in Western culture.; I argue that, through the discursive construction of a “value” distinct to science, science as a cultural institution or entity can appear to have an autonomous and unified character. Questions of what science is, or what it means, are thereby put aside in favor of examinations of scientific value. Scientific value concepts attempt to reify the concept “science” by establishing the taken-for-granted presence of scientific needs or a scientific economy. Explicitly, scientific value surfaces in debates about an object's “value” to/for science. Implicitly, scientific discourses construct various “values” for scientific endeavor and scientists.; This project examines the five ways scientific value operates in Western culture. Scientific value concepts: (1) delimit the borders of professionalized science; (2) make a scientific discipline seem valuable to a society; (3) make the scientist seem valuable as a subject in/for a society; (4) rationalize scientific imperialism through the imperative of waste; and (5) partially result from scientific representations' cultural effects or work.
机译:定义科学在西方文化中的性质和作用的尝试是多重且相互冲突的,并且常常演变为简单的竞争性评估。据说科学比艺术“要好”,或者说文学被认为是更“人文”的事业。这些论点无法解决的问题是,显然缺乏对“科学”的肯定的积极内容或定义。为了缓解这种不足,该项目研究了科学价值观念在西方文化中的作用。我认为,通过对科学所特有的“价值”的话语建构,科学作为一种文化机构或实体可以显得具有自治和统一的特征。因此,关于什么是科学或它意味着什么的问题被放在一边,以支持对科学价值的检验。科学价值概念试图通过确定科学需求或科学经济的存在来使“科学”概念具体化。明确地,科学价值在关于对象对科学的“价值”的辩论中浮出水面。暗地里,科学话语为科学事业和科学家构建了各种“价值”。该项目研究了科学价值在西方文化中运作的五种方式。科学价值观念:(1)界定专业科学的界限; (2)使一门科学学科对社会有价值; (3)使科学家在社会中/对于社会来说似乎很有价值; (4)通过浪费的必要性使科学帝国主义合理化; (5)部分是由于科学表示的文化影响或工作所致。

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  • 作者

    Kelleway, Kelly Sharon.;

  • 作者单位

    University of California, Riverside.;

  • 授予单位 University of California, Riverside.;
  • 学科 Literature General.; Literature English.; History of Science.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2002
  • 页码 229 p.
  • 总页数 229
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 自然科学史;
  • 关键词

  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:46:24

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