HLST200 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Physics, Earth, Chemistry
20 Nov 2018
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Unit #1: describe some of the problems associated with producing a definition of science. This latter issue the question of the social construction of science led to the science wars, a long, heated, and often bitter debate during the 1990s. On one side of the battle stood the postmodernists and their supporters from a range of disciplines who argued that there was no such thing as scientific objectivity or truth. The postmodernist school contended that science was essentially socially constructed and that it often served elitist ends or hidden agendas of one sort or another. On the other side of the battle were the realists, primarily scientists and their supporters, who held fast to the idea that science was objective. The ssk approach uses a relativistic analatical framework that stresses that failed or false scientific theories deserve as much attention as true or successful ones and that one must examine carefully the social context in which scientist work.
