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Science, Religion, and Society: Is the Truth Out There?

Spring Term, 2006: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 10:30 - 11:20 am, Chambers 322

Office Hours: M, W, F 9:30-10:20 am;
  T, Th 10:00-11:15 am or by appointment
Telephone: 704-894-2035
email: erlozada@davidson.edu
web: http://www.davidson.edu/personal/erlozada

How do scientific theories and methodologies, religious beliefs and practices, and technological innovations affect the way we perceive the world around us? This course, an introduction to to Science, Technology and Society (STS) studies, is designed to be an inquiry into questions that involve the production and cultural meanings of scientific knowledge and technological change. This course will compare the function and rhetoric of scientific "truths" to other modes of truth-production and consider the ways in which science is culturally produced and in turn reproductive of cultural norms in Western society, especially in the adoption of Western scientific practices and institutions by non-Western societies. The impact of the specificity of social and cultural environments on science will be explored at a number of different levels including theoretical models from STS and other disciplines, ethnographic and historical case studies, and individual reflections by scientists on their practices of science and religion.

Lecture notes (pdf format) can be found on the schedule.

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  Dept. of Anthropology
  Davidson College
  Box 6969
  Davidson, NC 28035 USA

  office: Chambers B12
  tel. 704-894-2035
  fax. 704-894-2842
  erlozada@davidson.edu

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