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Big Science Transformed: Science, Politics and Organization in Europe and the United States
Olof Hallonsten
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Description for Big Science Transformed: Science, Politics and Organization in Europe and the United States
Hardcover. Num Pages: 319 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 3JJP; JHBL; KCP; PDR; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 546.
This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical and sociological perspectives. It shows how technology-intensive natural sciences grew to a prominent position in Western societies during the post-World War II era, and how their development cohered with both technological and social developments. At the helm of post-war science are large-scale projects, primarily in physics, which receive substantial funds from the public purse.
Big Science Transformed shows how these projects, popularly called 'Big Science', have become symbols of progress. It analyses changes to the political and sociological frameworks surrounding publicly-funding ... Read more
This book analyses the emergence of a transformed Big Science in Europe and the United States, using both historical and sociological perspectives. It shows how technology-intensive natural sciences grew to a prominent position in Western societies during the post-World War II era, and how their development cohered with both technological and social developments. At the helm of post-war science are large-scale projects, primarily in physics, which receive substantial funds from the public purse.
Big Science Transformed shows how these projects, popularly called 'Big Science', have become symbols of progress. It analyses changes to the political and sociological frameworks surrounding publicly-funding ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319327372
SKU
V9783319327372
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About Olof Hallonsten
Olof Hallonsten is a Researcher at Lund University and the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He is a sociologist of science whose areas of expertise are the politics and organization of science and modern history of science. He has published several works on the topic of large-scale scientific instrumentation and its political and organizational aspects.
Reviews for Big Science Transformed: Science, Politics and Organization in Europe and the United States
‘Big Science Transformed relies on a number of well-researched cases and contexts to show how Big Science has changed over the past decades resulting in new types of facilities built to satisfy new demands. Although the processes dissected in Hallonsten’s innovative analyses are complex and heterogeneous, he manages to put them in a coherent theoretical framework, ... Read more