Sci&Tech History

Etzkowitz, one of the people which use to be citied about triple helix, introduce spaces as a consequence of a change in values among promoters of regional economic development from a sole focus on “business climate” and subsidies to firms to creating the conditions for knowledge-based economic development. One indicator of this shift is the [...]

What influence someone in making a decision? As a scientist, rational, scientific and efficient are some points that might have been considered. Moreover, scientists are not just scientist; they are also Japanese, German, Brazilian or Canadian. In Science & Technology in a Multicultural World, David J. Hess pointed that nationality also influence how the scientist [...]

One approach which lately rises in social theory is self-organization. The concept was adapted from biology principal. It is Stuart Kaufman, a biologist which gives significance in the recent literature on the science of self-organizing system. His work including how things, including society and technology can be characterized as a living organism and most of [...]

In January 2006, the government initiated a presidential instruction about provision and use of biofuel as alternative energy source. The instruction addressed to 13 government institutions and regional government on biofuel supply and utilization as an alternative energy. As a supporting team, the presidential instruction also followed by the Presidential Decree No.10/2006 on National Team [...]

What makes a community different with others? Peter M. Haas gives a characteristics of epistemic communities, which must have(Haas, International Organization Vol.46): 1) A shared set of normative and principled beliefs, which provide a value-based rationale for the social action of community members. 2) Shared causal beliefs, which are derived from their analysis of practices leading or [...]

Can love be quantified? I prefer to answer it with no, although, love can be identified with things that can be quantified, such as the time we spend with our love, things which we gave freely, feelings which we felt when we saw him/her, etc. My thesis can be stated as: If you love someone/something, than [...]

There are three key aspects to the alternative model of science that Serres proposes: 1. Science is not a linear process, it is neither gradual accumulation of knowledge nor constant epistemological revolution. The model Serres offers instead is topological, a shifting distribution of points in complex spatial arrangements. Historical developments in science then need to be [...]

In Homo Academicus, Pierre Bourdieu illustrates his central thesis about how cultural fields mediate the political attitudes and behavior of intellectuals. He introduces two different kinds of power, academic power and intellectual renown. The academic power refers to the degree of control over the organizational mechanism for teacher training, selection, promotions, and careers, while intellectual [...]