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Contemporary society
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TL;DR: In this paper, Merton's seminal work in the sociology of science still offers useful insights to understand key features, trends, and challenges of science in contemporary societies, focusing on two main topics that bear particular relevance to contemporary science in society debates.
Abstract: Can Robert K. Merton’s seminal work in the sociology of science still offer useful insights to understand key features, trends, and challenges of science in contemporary societies? This chapter focuses on two main topics that bear particular relevance to contemporary science in society debates. It addresses the general theme of values and norms in science in the light of relevant organizational changes that have marked science in recent decades, as well as the resilience of the concept of ‘scientific community’ to those changes. Starting from Merton’s classic study of the ‘Matthew effect’, the article then analyses the theme of competition in science, with particular regard to the dynamics that characterize the reputation and visibility of scientists across both in specialist and public forums.
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14 Mar 2018
TL;DR: Video games are becoming culturally dominant. But what does their popularity say about our contemporary society? as mentioned in this paper explores video game culture, but in doing so, utilizes video games as a lens through which to understand contemporary social life.
Abstract: Video games are becoming culturally dominant. But what does their popularity say about our contemporary society? This book explores video game culture, but in doing so, utilizes video games as a lens through which to understand contemporary social life.
Video games are becoming an increasingly central part of our cultural lives, impacting on various aspects of everyday life such as our consumption, communities, and identity formation. Drawing on new and original empirical data – including interviews with gamers, as well as key representatives from the video game industry, media, education, and cultural sector – Video Games as Culture not only considers contemporary video game culture, but also explores how video games provide important insights into the modern nature of digital and participatory culture, patterns of consumption and identity formation, late modernity, and contemporary political rationalities.
This book will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, interested in fields such Video Games, Sociology, and Media and Cultural Studies. It will also be useful for those interested in the wider role of culture, technology, and consumption in the transformation of society, identities, and communities.
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01 Jan 1989
TL;DR: In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines. Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time? Heisenberg discusses these issues in the most far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples.
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