STS subdisciplines
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STS subdisciplines Subject-matter (object of study) Communities (people)
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STS subdisciplines. Subject-matter (object of study). Communities (people). Subject matter of STS. Practices. Thick descriptions. Discourses. Disciplines. Communities. Contemporary STSers. Historians. Oral histories Biography Prosopography. Interviewing Network-discourse analysis - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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STS subdisciplinesSubject-matter
(object of study)
Communities (people)
Subject matter of STS
Practices
DisciplinesDiscourses
Thick descriptions
Communities
HistoriansContemporary
STSers
InterviewingNetwork-discourse analysisLife stories
Oral historiesBiographyProsopography
Historians
Contemporary STSers
Subject matterWhiggismTeleology
Policy irrelevanceDullness
Historians
Contemporary STSers
Subject matter
Collaborative approach to interdisciplinarity
Reconfigured practices (genetic engineering, computer analysis)
New disciplines (biotechnology, genomics)
Promissory discourses
Recent biomedicine
Collaborative (thicker)
descriptions
Genealogy of narratives
Documents (archival evidence, contemporary artifacts)
How should STS approach
documents?
