Instead of reviewing the theoretical history of STS, in sticking with the tapas approach to an introductory course, I’m going to move to one of the key conflicts in the use of science in public policy – namely, the relationship between science and religion. To understand this relationship, we read two key authors in the […]

The emergence of the United States coincided with the development of modern science (which we will define later once we’ve read the Shapin and Shaffer book); the development of higher education (as seen in the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890), especially the land-grant university , made explicit the connection between academic sciences and the […]

What is STS? Science, Technology, and Society (or Science and Technology Studies) is an interdisciplinary field of study that essentially looks at two issues: how science and technology impacts society (and culture); and how society (and culture) impacts science and technology (STS Wiki definition; Harvard definition). In the 21st century, I, as a professor of […]