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    The sociology of scientific ignorance (SSI) is the study of ignorance in and of science. The most common way is to see ignorance as something relevant...
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    structures and processes of scientific activity." The sociology of scientific ignorance (SSI) is complementary to the sociology of scientific knowledge. For comparison...
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  • provide Sociology of scientific ignorance, the study of ignorance as something relevant. Nottelmann, Nikolaj. "ignorance." Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy...
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  • Science (redirect from Scientific)
    physical world; the social sciences (e.g., economics, psychology, and sociology), which study individuals and societies; and the formal sciences (e.g...
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  • Agency (sociology) Argument from authority Bounded rationality Mooers's law Rational irrationality Satisficing Sociology of scientific ignorance Downs....
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    reading, the sociology of science may be taken to be considered with the analysis of the social context of scientific thought. But scientific thought, most...
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  • Social constructivism is a sociological theory of knowledge according to which human development is socially situated, and knowledge is constructed through...
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    Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method. Pseudoscience...
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    complement is the sociology of ignorance. The sociology of knowledge was pioneered primarily by the sociologist Émile Durkheim at the beginning of the 20th century...
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  • widespread scientific ignorance, to standardize teaching among states, and to raise the number of high school graduates who choose scientific and technical majors...
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  • responsibility, particularly with regard to scientific or technical knowledge. Technocracy follows largely in the tradition of other meritocracy theories and assumes...
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    of scientific methods for studying society) remains the dominant approach to both the research and the theory construction in contemporary sociology,...
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    Postpositivism (category Metatheory of science)
    Antipositivism Philosophy of science Scientism Sociology of scientific knowledge Bergman, Mats (2016). "Positivism". The International Encyclopedia of Communication...
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  • subjective impressions by the scholarly community, on analyses of prize winners of scientific associations, discipline, a publisher's reputation, and its...
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  • scientometrics and other scientific fields such as information systems, information science, science of science policy, sociology of science, and metascience...
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    is of a technical or scientific nature. The opposite of innovation is exnovation. Surveys of the literature on innovation have found a variety of definitions...
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  • Bearman (December 2010). "The Temporal Structure of Scientific Consensus Formation". American Sociological Review. 75 (6): 817–40. doi:10.1177/0003122410388488...
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    Scientific skepticism or rational skepticism (also spelled scepticism), sometimes referred to as skeptical inquiry, is a position in which one questions...
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  • Marx intended to develop, scientifically, a new secular ideology in the wake of European secularisation. The early sociology of Herbert Spencer came about...
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    wide range of activities that connect science and society. Common goals of science communication include informing non-experts about scientific findings...
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  • mathematical model of vagueness, while probability is a mathematical model of ignorance. A basic application might characterize various sub-ranges of a continuous...
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  • structured group of people who research and develop a project, often with a very large degree of autonomy, primarily for the sake of radical innovation...
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  • Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in the publication of professional scientific research...
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  • described at length what was involved in having scientific knowledge of something. To be scientific, he said, one must deal with causes, one must use...
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  • Foundations of Science, Cambridge University Press, (Cambridge), 1962. Merton, R.K., "Priorities in Scientific Discovery: A Chapter in the Sociology of Science"...
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  • would not be a scientific culture. In the introduction to his collected works on the sociology of religion, Max Weber asked why "the scientific, the artistic...
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    Fourth Industrial Revolution (category Internet of things)
    scientific data, the objective is to enable real-time monitoring via a smartphone with a range of advice that optimises plot management in terms of results...
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    Science studies (category Historiography of science)
    leading to the differentiation of scientific fields and practices. The sociology of scientific knowledge arose at the University of Edinburgh, where David Bloor...
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    Research (redirect from Scientific ethics)
    of research: scientific, humanities, artistic, economic, social, business, marketing, practitioner research, life, technological, etc. The scientific...
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    discipline, as in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the 20th century, as a result of scientific progress and the Second Industrial Revolution...
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