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Record W2080890661 · doi:10.1080/02691720500084226

“Science and Democracy:” Replayed or Redesigned?

2005· article· en· W2080890661 on OpenAlex
Sandra Harding

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fundA Canadian funder is recorded on the work.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueSocial Epistemology · 2005
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicFeminist Epistemology and Gender Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersMcMaster University
KeywordsAcknowledgementGlobeSociologyCriticismDemocracyIndigenousMedia studiesPoliticsSocial scienceLawPolitical sciencePsychology

Abstract

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Abstract Mid‐Twentieth Century declarations characterizing science as a ‘Little democracy’ and as autonomous from society continue to shape the arguments of scientists’ and critics of science studies, including Meera Nanda’s arguments. Yet such an image of science has long lost whatever empirical support it ever posessed. This article shares Nanda’s concern to envision sciences which support social justice projects, but not the particular criticisms she makes of Feminist, post‐colonial, and post‐kuhnian science studies. Keywords: ScienceDemocracyFeminismIndigenous knowledgeScience studies Notes [1] Subsequent unspecified citations are to this book. [2] The Science and Technology Studies department at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, in Troy, NY. [3] Oddly, these acknowledgement pages are to be found on pp. 269–70, hidden between the text and the footnotes, rather than in their usual location in the front matter. [4] See, for example, the Indigenous Knowledge and Development Monitor at http://www.nuffic.ni/ciran/ikdm.html; many of the essays in Nader Citation1996; and the more than 600 essays in Selin (1992). See also Goonatilake (Citation1998) and Harding (Citation1998). [5] The phrase comes from Smith (Citation1990). See also Harding (Citation2004). [6] See, for one perception of these issues, Rouse (Citation1996). [7] For example, Adas (Citation1989), Kochhar (Citation1992–93), Kumar (Citation1991, Citation1995), Nandy (Citation1983), Prakash (Citation1999), Sardar (Citation1988). Nandy is one of her main targets of criticism. [8] See Daedalus (Citation2000), and especially Eisenstadt (Citation2000), for provocative arguments about the multiplicity of modernities developed around the globe. [9] In addition to the authors cited earlier as providing accounts which do not support Nanda’s, it is worth noting that accounts of the role of imperialism in the development of European sciences have been produced for virtually every part of the European empire. See, for example, Brockway (Citation1979), McClellan (Citation1992), and the studies reported in Harding (Citation1998) for well‐known such cases. [10] Hollinger (pp. 99–100) cites also Hagerstrom (Citation1965), Machlup (Citation1962), Price (Citation1963), and Price (Citation1964). Ravetz (Citation1971) and others subsequently made influential contributions to analyses of how scientific communities were organized. [11] By “communism” Merton meant collective or public ownership of the results of research. [12] Indeed, Hollinger notes that Robert Merton had a Jewish upbringing. “Merton has described his childhood in Philadelphia as ‘Meyer H. Schkolnick’, and the process by which he took on the very English name by which he has been known throughout his career” (Hollinger, pp. 80–1; Merton, Citation1994).

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.856
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.006
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.049
GPT teacher head0.361
Teacher spread0.311 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it