Module SOCM950 for 2019/0
- Overview
- Aims and Learning Outcomes
- Module Content
- Indicative Reading List
- Assessment
Postgraduate Module Descriptor
SOCM950: Science Technology and Society
This module descriptor refers to the 2019/0 academic year.
Module Content
Syllabus Plan
1. The philosophical and sociological background; 2. Technological determinism; 3. Interpretation and classification; 4. Knowledge and interests; 5. Gender and Technology; 6. Military and productive technologies; 7. Domestic and reproductive Technologies; 8. Relevant social groups; 9. Actor Network Theory; 10. Science communication; 11. Revision
Learning and Teaching
This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | Guided independent study | Placement / study abroad |
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22 | 278 | 0 |
...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:
Category | Hours of study time | Description |
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Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities | 22 | 11 x 2 hour seminars |
Guided independent study | 278 | Independent study |
Online Resources
This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).
Indicative Reading List
This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.
B. Barnes, About Science (Blackwell, 1995).
B. Barnes, D. Bloor, J. Henry, Scientific Knowledge: a Sociological Analysis (Chicago, 1996).
The Cyberculture Reader, eds. D. Bell, B. Kennedy (Routledge, 2000).
M. Biagioli (ed.), The Science Studies Reader (Routledge, 1999).
M. Lederman, I. Bartsch (eds.), The Gender and Science Reader (Routledge, 2001).
B. Latour, Science in Action (Harvard, 1985).
J. Law, Organizing Modernity (Blackwell, 1994).
J. Golinski, Making Natural Knowledge (Cambridge U.P., 1998).
H. Collins, T. Pinch, The Golem: What You Should Know About Science (Cambridge U.P., 1993).
S. Jasanoff et al. (ed.), Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (Sage, 1995).
D. Haraway, Modest Witness @ Second Millenium (Routledge, 1997).
D. MacKenzie, Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust (MIT Press, 2001).
D. Mackenzie, J. Wajcman (eds.), The Social Shaping of Technology (Open U.P., 1999).
J. Wajcman, Feminism confronts Technology (Penn State Press, 1992)