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Expeditionary anthropology : teamwork, travel and the 'science of man'
The origins of anthropology lie in expeditionary journeys. But since the rise of immersive fieldwork, usually by a sole investigator, the older tradition of team-based social research has been largely eclipsed. Expeditionary Anthropology argues that expeditions have much to tell us about anthropologists and the people they studied. The book charts the diversity of anthropological expeditions and analyses the often passionate arguments they provoked. Drawing on recent developments in gender studies, indigenous studies and the history of science, the book argues that even today, the 'science of man' is deeply inscribed by its connections with expeditionary travel.
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Matters of care in technoscience: Assembling neglected things
This paper aims to encourage an ethos of care in the study of science and technology. It starts with a reading of Bruno Latour's notion of 'matters of concern' as favouring an awareness of the ethico-political effects of constructivist accounts in STS. Introducing attention to concern brings us closer to a notion of care. However, there is a 'critical' edge to care that Latour's politics of things tends to disregard. Drawing upon feminist knowledge politics, I propose to treat matters of fact and sociotechnical assemblages as 'matters of care' and argue that engaging with care requires a speculative commitment to neglected things.
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Observe it!
\"We all learn about the world around us by making observations. Scientists are no exception! This intriguing title explains how scientists observe using their senses and tools. Readers will apply what they learn by making observations, comparing, sorting, and classifying.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Undone Science: Charting Social Movement and Civil Society Challenges to Research Agenda Setting
\"Undone science\" refers to areas of research that are left unfunded, incomplete, or generally ignored but that social movements or civil society organizations often identify as worthy of more research. This study mobilizes four recent studies to further elaborate the concept of undone science as it relates to the political construction of research agendas. Using these cases, we develop the argument that undone science is part of a broader politics of knowledge, wherein multiple and competing groups struggle over the construction and implementation of alternative research agendas. Overall, the study demonstrates the analytic potential of the concept of undone science to deepen understanding of the systematic nonproduction of knowledge in the institutional matrix of state, industry, and social movements that is characteristic of recent calls for a \"new political sociology of science.\"
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Unreliable : bias, fraud, and the reproducibility crisis in biomedical research
\"Scientists specializing in the in-depth analysis of the published scientific literature have to the conclusion that a large part of the scientific literature covers results that cannot be replicated in other independent laboratories. Scientists take this to mean that the results are unreliable or untrue. In this book, biomedical researcher Csaba Szabo summarizes the causes and consequences of this so-called \"reproducibility crisis\" in biomedical research. The range of causes is wide, from the specificities of the methods used, through various pitfalls in the design of experiments and analysis of experimental data (e.g., confirmation bias), plagiarism and deliberate data falsification, to the systematic publication of fictitious experiments that have never been performed. Through a few blatant examples - e.g. Anil Potti (Duke University); Piero Anversa (Harvard University) - Szabo describes the damaging impact that blatant fraud can have on the development of an entire field of science, and introduces some of the maverick \"science investigators\" - often working in anonymity - who devote their lives to tracking down and exposing scientific fraudsters. The book also answers the questions (a) what individual and systemic factors are involved in allowing these phenomena to occur, (b) why the appropriate steps have not been taken to control them, and (c) what the implications of the crisis are for the future of medicine and, within it, for the development of new drugs\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Five Decades of Mathematics Education Research
Mathematics educators have been publishing their work in international research journals for nearly 5 decades. How has the field developed over this period? The authors analyzed the full text of all articles published in Educational Studies in Mathematics and the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education since their foundation. They quantitatively assess the extent of the “social turn,” observe that the field is currently experiencing a period of theoretical diversity, and identify and discuss the “experimental cliff,” a period during which experimental investigations migrated away from mathematics education journals.
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Academic atmosphere and graduate students’ innovation ability: the role of scientific research self-efficacy and scientific engagement
At present, our society is more and more interested in innovation ability. The Chinese government emphasizes higher education institutions’ role in forming and developing students’ innovation abilities. However, few studies have explored how to improve the innovation ability of higher education students from the academic atmosphere of higher education institutions. This study examines the impact of the academic atmosphere on Chinese graduate students’ innovation ability and the chain mediating effect of scientific research self-efficacy and scientific engagement. Three hundred thirteen Chinese postgraduates were investigated with the academic atmosphere scale, scientific research self-efficacy scale, scientific engagement scale, and innovation ability scale. The bootstrap method was used to test the mediating effect. The results show that (1) there is a significant positive correlation between the academic atmosphere and the innovation ability of graduate students, (2) scientific research self-efficacy and scientific engagement play a mediating role between the academic atmosphere and graduate students’ innovation ability, and (3) the mediating role includes three paths: the mediating role of scientific research self-efficacy, the mediating role of scientific engagement, and the chain mediating role of scientific research self-efficacy and scientific engagement. The research results provide empirical evidence and reference suggestions for improving the innovation ability of graduate students. Therefore, this study suggests that higher education institutions should adopt more effective academic atmosphere management strategies to create a positive academic atmosphere to improve the scientific research efficacy and engagement of postgraduates and thus solve the practical problem of the low innovation ability of postgraduates.
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The Matilda Effect in science: Awards and prizes in the US, 1990s and 2000s
Science is stratified, with an unequal distribution of research facilities and rewards among scientists. Awards and prizes, which are critical for shaping scientific career trajectories, play a role in this stratification when they differentially enhance the status of scientists who already have large reputations: the 'Matthew Effect'. Contrary to the Mertonian norm of universalism — the expectation that the personal attributes of scientists do not affect evaluations of their scientific claims and contributions — in practice, a great deal of evidence suggests that the scientific efforts and achievements of women do not receive the same recognition as do those of men: the 'Matilda Effect'. Awards in science, technology, engineering and medical (STEM) fields are not immune to these biases. We outline the research on gender bias in evaluations of research and analyze data from 13 STEM disciplinary societies. While women's receipt of professional awards and prizes has increased in the past two decades, men continue to win a higher proportion of awards for scholarly research than expected based on their representation in the nomination pool. The results support the powerful twin influences of implicit bias and committee chairs as contributing factors. The analysis sheds light on the relationship of external social factors to women's science careers and helps to explain why women are severely underrepresented as winners of science awards. The ghettoization of women's accomplishments into a category of 'women-only' awards also is discussed.
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