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== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Remembering</span> == * '''Science and Technology Studies (STS)''' β An interdisciplinary field that examines how "Social," "Political," and "Cultural" values affect "Scientific Research" and "Technological Innovation." * '''Actor-Network Theory (ANT)''' (Bruno Latour) β The idea that "Things" (Microscopes, Books, Computers) have "Agency" and are part of the "Network" of society along with "People." * '''Social Construction of Technology (SCOT)''' β The theory that technology doesn't "Just happen"; its design is "Determined" by "Social Groups" and "Negotiations." * '''Black Boxing''' β When a piece of technology or a scientific theory becomes so "Accepted" that we "Forget how it works" and just treat it as a "Fact." * '''Paradigm Shift''' (Thomas Kuhn) β (See Article 131). The process by which science "Changes its mind" when too many "Anomalies" break the old model. * '''Boundary Work''' β The "Social Struggle" to define what is "Science" and what is "Pseudo-science" (e.g., the 'Psychology vs. Astrology' debate). * '''Technoscience''' β The concept that "Science" and "Technology" are now so "Linked" that you cannot have one without the other. * '''Co-production''' β The idea that "Science" and "Society" make each other simultaneously (e.g., the 'Internet' changed 'Society,' but 'Society's needs' designed the 'Internet'). * '''Epistemic Community''' β A group of "Experts" who share a common set of "Beliefs" and "Methods" for creating knowledge. * '''The Laboratory Life''' β Ethnographic studies where anthropologists "Live in a lab" to watch scientists like they were a "Remote Tribe." </div> <div style="background-color: #006400; color: #FFFFFF; padding: 20px; border-radius: 8px; margin-bottom: 15px;">
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