Lessons‘ topics:

1. Introduction: pre-modern forms of knowledge and modern science

2. The origin of scientific disciplines

3. Intellectuals and the intellectual field (Pierre Bourdieu)

4. Professions and professionalization

5. Bureaucracy and the process of bureaucratization

6. Ideologies and the critique of ideology

7. Science and power, science and the state (Michel Foucault)

8. Critique of technical knowledge (Bruno Latour, Ullrich Beck)

9. Social constructionism and the critique of scientific knowledge

10. Feminist and post-colonial analyses of science

11. Knowledge-based society and its inner contradictions

12. Conclusion: the evolution of science and historical sociology

Course materials

Course readings, slide decks used for each class, and webcasts summarizing select classes can be downloaded from Moodle (https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=7681).

Recommended further readings:

Beck, Ulrich, Risk Society: Towards a New Moderity, transl. Mark Ritter, London: Sage 1992.

Fleck, Ludwik, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1979.

Foucault, Michel, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, transl. Alan Sheridan, Harmondsworth: Penguin 1991.

Freeden, Michael, Ideology: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003.

Hacking, Ian, The Social Construction of What? Harvard: Harvard University Press 2000.

Harding, Sandra (ed.), The Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies Reader, Durham: Duke University Press 2011.

Illich, Ivan, Deschooling Society, New York: Harper & Row 1971.

Kuhn, Thomas S., The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd ed., Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1970.

Latour, Bruno, Science in Action. How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society, Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press 1987.

Sismondo, Sergio, An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, 2^nd ed., Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell 2010.

Yearley, Steven, Making Sense of Science: Understanding the Social Study of Science, London: Sage 2005.

And the readings required for lessons.