"The field has shattered the notion that scientific and technological findings objectively capture the world as it really is, she said.
“Our scientific pictures of the world are really the product of social activity at a lot of different levels,” from what we choose to examine, to how we examine them, to the methodology and objectives, to what is focused on and ignored. “These are all profoundly socially inflected,” she said.
As director of the Program on Science, Technology and Society at HKS, which she founded in 2002, Jasanoff has been instrumental in developing and bringing legitimacy to the field, Harvard colleagues say."
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2...echnology/
“Our scientific pictures of the world are really the product of social activity at a lot of different levels,” from what we choose to examine, to how we examine them, to the methodology and objectives, to what is focused on and ignored. “These are all profoundly socially inflected,” she said.
As director of the Program on Science, Technology and Society at HKS, which she founded in 2002, Jasanoff has been instrumental in developing and bringing legitimacy to the field, Harvard colleagues say."
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2...echnology/
