Table of Contents: Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences.

Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kastenhofer, Karen.
Other Authors:	Molyneux-Hodgson, Susan.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook Series
Subjects:	Electronic books.
Online Access:	Click to View

Table of Contents:

Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences
Preface
Contents
Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Making Sense of Community and Identity in Twenty-First Century Technoscience
1.1 New Wine in Old Bottles?
1.2 Staged Communities, Manufactured Disciplines, and Strategic Identities
1.3 From Communality to Communities-The Socio-Cultural Organisation and Differentiation of Science
1.4 The Scientific Persona and Identity
1.5 Synthesising Communities: Processes of Qualitative Change, Heterogeneity, Theoretical Demarcation and Social Engineering
1.5.1 Processes of Qualitative Change
1.5.2 Heterogeneities
1.5.3 Theoretical Demarcations
1.5.4 The Social Engineering of Community
1.6 `Choreographing Identities:́ From Identity Trouble to Strategic Performance
1.6.1 Becoming and/or Performing?
1.6.2 Choreographing and Repairing Breaches of Canonical Narratives as Specific Kinds of Identity Work
1.6.3 The Affective Dimension
1.7 A Preliminary Conclusion
References
Part I: Synthetic Communities
Chapter 2: Remaining Central and Interdisciplinary: Conditions for Success of a Research Speciality at the University of Stras...
2.1 Background and Context
2.1.1 Revisiting the Emergence of Research Specialties in Chemistry
2.1.2 The Role of Individual Scientists, Coherent Groups, Disciplines and New Disciplinarity
2.1.3 Approach, Methods and Structure of this Chapter
2.2 SMC, a Speciality `At the Borders Of ́
2.2.1 Concepts Characteristic of the Scientific Programme of SMC
2.2.2 A Three-Period Chronology
2.2.2.1 Period 1: The Emergence of the Supramolecular Chemistry Paradigm (1961-1978)
2.2.2.2 Period 2: The Emergence of a Specialty: From Supramolecular Chemistry to a Science of Supramolecular Systems (1979-199.
2.2.2.3 Period 3: Institutionalisation Processes (1998-2011)-Materialising Concepts
2.2.3 An Original Conceptual and Organisational `Heritage ́
2.2.3.1 A Polymorphic, Though Coherent and Organised Community, Attentive to Its Position
2.2.3.2 A Strong Local Rootedness with Great International Openness
2.2.4 The ISIS Building as a Mediator Between Epistemic Practices and Politics
2.3 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 3: What Synthetic Biology Aims At: Review Articles as Sites for Constructing and Narrating an Emerging Field
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Review Articles, Genre Analysis and the Study of Scientific Fields
3.3 Methods
3.4 Results
3.4.1 Reviews in the Field of Synthetic Biology
3.4.2 Results of the Content Analysis
3.4.2.1 Types of Reviews in the Corpus
3.4.2.2 `What Synthetic Biology Aims At:́ Strategies of Self-Characterisation
3.4.2.3 From Authoritative to Narrative Forms of Community-Building: Changes in Legitimating the Field
3.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: The Emergence of Technoscientific Fields and the New Political Sociology of Science
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Theoretical Framework-The Emergence of Technoscientific Fields Revisited
4.2.1 Emergence as a Multi-Scalar Process
4.2.2 Strategic Control of External Relations
4.3 Use of Advanced Scientometrics and Qualitative Methods
4.3.1 Delineation
4.3.2 Heterogeneity
4.3.3 Distribution of Scientific Capital
4.4 Mapping the Emergence of Synbio as a Technoscientific Field
4.4.1 Heterogeneity
4.4.2 Hierarchy
4.4.3 Autonomy
4.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Self-Organisation and Steering in International Research Collaborations
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Self-Organisation and Steering in International Research Collaborations
5.3 Research Methods and Data.
5.4 Self-Organisation and Steering in Two International Research Collaborations
5.4.1 Emergence
5.4.2 Formal and Informal Collaboration
5.5 Results
5.6 Conclusions
References
Chapter 6: The Project-ed Community
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Project-ed Communities
6.3 The Project as Argumentative Device
6.4 The Project as Strategic Convergence
6.4.1 Bioenergy to Sell Basic Microbiology
6.4.2 Aix and Marseilleś Excellent Adventure
6.4.3 The Making of Microbio-E
6.5 The Project as Arena of Research
6.5.1 The Project as a Whole
6.5.2 A Patchwork of Subprojects
6.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: The Epistemic Importance of Novices: How Undergraduate Students Contribute to Engineering Laboratory Communities
7.1 The Roles of Novices in Communities
7.2 Methodology
7.3 Undergraduates ́Expertise
7.4 The Epistemic Value of Inexpertise
7.4.1 How Low-Stakes Learning Encourages Epistemic Exchange
7.4.2 Teaching as Community-Building
7.4.3 How Broad Education and Outsider Status Encourage Creativity
7.5 Conclusion: Epistemic Exchanges
References
Chapter 8: Tracing Technoscientific Collectives in Synthetic Biology: Interdisciplines and Communities of Knowledge Application
8.1 Introduction: Technoscientific Communities?
8.1.1 From Community to Scientific Community
8.1.2 Scientific Communities
8.1.3 Communities and Collaboration
8.1.4 Interdisciplinary Communities
8.2 Method
8.3 Synthetic Biology: To Be or Not To Be (a Community)
8.3.1 Community-Making
8.3.2 Community, Communities, Interdiscipline?
8.4 Challenges in Synthetic Biology Collaboration: Investigating Communities that Matter
8.4.1 Challenged Collaboration
8.4.2 Communities of Knowledge Application?
8.5 Conclusion
References.
Chapter 9: Community by Template? Considering the Role of Templates for Enacting Membership in Digital Communities of Practice
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Theoretical Framework
9.2.1 Performing Community Through Travelling Practices
9.2.2 Performing Membership Through Accounting and Representing a Communityś Shared Practice(s)
9.3 Research Methodology and Methods
9.3.1 Empirical Site
9.3.2 Methodology
9.4 Analysis
9.4.1 Vignette 1: Translating and Disentangling Practices Through Templates
9.4.2 Vignette 2: Enacting Joint Practices through and with Templates
9.4.3 Configuring Templates, Performing Community (Membership)
9.4.4 Configuring Templates, Performing Exchange Relations
9.5 Conclusion: Community by Template?
References
Part II: Troubled Identities
Chapter 10: Performing Science in Public: Science Communication and Scientific Identity
10.1 Identity as Performance
10.2 Science Communication Is Heterogeneous
10.3 Scientific Identities Are Multiple
10.4 Audiences Are Heterogeneous
10.5 Discussion
References
Chapter 11: Being a `Good Researcher ́in Transdisciplinary Research: Choreographies of Identity Work Beyond Community
11.1 Introduction-The Multiplication of Belongings in Research
11.2 State of the Field-Identity beyond Scientific Disciplines
11.3 Approaching Identity Work beyond Disciplines as `Choreography ́
11.4 Material and Methods
11.4.1 Case
11.4.2 Empirical Approach
11.4.3 Analytical Strategy and Presentation of Findings
11.5 Findings-Identity Work as Choreography
11.5.1 Being an `Explorer-́Undertaking Temporary Trips into Unknown Territory
11.5.2 Being a `Caring Broker-́Creating Ad-Hoc Social Bonds while Keeping Epistemic Independence
11.5.3 Being a `Moral Manager-́Heading for a `Greater Good.́
11.5.4 Being a `Polymath-́Integrating Encounters with Others into Oneś Own Life Story
11.6 Collective Ordering
11.6.1 Transgressing but Maintaining Boundaries through Trade
11.6.2 Establishing New Boundaries through Attempts at Building a Transdisciplinary Community
11.7 Conclusions
References
Chapter 12: Constructing (Inter)Disciplinary Identities: Biographical Narrative and the Reproduction of Academic Selves and Co...
12.1 Introduction
12.2 How Disciplines and Identity Interrelate
12.3 Methodology
12.3.1 Analytical Approach and Analytical Categories
12.3.2 Empirical Material
12.4 Analysis
12.4.1 Lawrence - Mathematics
12.4.2 Blanc - Computer Science and Bioinformatics
12.4.3 Lindsay - Economics
12.4.4 Julia - Archaeology
12.5 Discussion and Conclusion: Narrating Identities and Reproducing Disciplines
References
Chapter 13: `Big Interdisciplinarity:́ Unsettling and Resettling Excellence
13.1 Introduction
13.2 Communities, Identities, Interdisciplinarity, and Expertise
13.3 Context: The Excellence Initiative Funding Scheme
13.4 Communities and Identities within the Interdisciplinary Cluster Image Knowledge Gestaltung
13.4.1 The Interdisciplinary Composition of Image Knowledge Gestaltung
13.4.2 Unsettling (Inter)Disciplinarity
13.4.3 Resettling and Status
13.4.4 (Re)Settling at the Margins of Academia
13.4.5 Resettling in the Interdisciplinary Neighbourhood
13.4.6 Resettling in the Interactional Space
13.5 Summary and Conclusions
References
Chapter 14: A Passion for Science: Addressing the Role of Emotions in Identities of Biologists
14.1 Scientists and Their Profession: An Emotional Relationship
14.1.1 Passionate Tales
14.2 Narrating Passionate Tales
14.2.1 A Fascination with Science
14.2.2 Committing to Science.
14.2.3 Imagining a Future Generation of Scientists.

Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences.

Similar Items