Answer the following about the discipline of Science and Technology Studies, for 10 points each:
[10h] University of Edinburgh professor David Bloor has championed this school of STS, which subjects both “true” and “false” scientific theories to sociological examination. This school’s radical form of relativism is embedded in its tenet of reflexivity, which holds that its findings must be applicable to sociology itself.
ANSWER: strong programme
[10m] A contrasting approach in STS is this widely-applied theory developed by Michel Callon, John Law, and other scholars which posits that the relationships between human and non-human agents drives knowledge creation.
ANSWER: actor–network theory [or ANT]
[10e] The modern discipline of STS began with the 1962 publication of this book, which argues that “normal science” is punctuated by periodic “paradigm shifts.”
ANSWER: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
<CS, Social Science>