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Revision as of 11:47, 6 October 2014
Sociological Imaginations - Reconciling Environmental Discourses
Human Practice Team
Explore Sociological Imaginations
Overview | Introduction | Methodology | GlossaryConceptual Framework: The Governance Challenges of Synthetic Biology | Theoretical Framework: Opposing Paradigms in the Face of Environmental Decline
Chapter 1: Synthetic Biology for Environmental Reform | Chapter 2: UCL iGEM 2014 in the Risk Society | Chapter 3: Transcending Multifaceted Borders
Chapter 4: The Playful Professional and Sustainable Governance| List of References
Glossary
- Anticipatory socialisation: Adopting norms, values, standards and behaviour of a group, which non-members of the group aspire to join. Through social interactions and experience, these individuals learn to take on the role they have yet to assume in order to facilitate their assimilation and eventual participation in the group (Marshall 1998).
- Accountability:
- Black-boxing:
- Commodification:
- Deskilling:
- Discourse:
- Dual-use technology: Technologies which can be used for more than one goal, usually having both civilian or peaceful purpose and military aims. They imply a dilemma "because it is difficult to prevent their misuse without forgoing beneficial applications. [...] [M]any of the emerging technologies with the potential to do the most good are also capable of the greatest harm" (Tucker 2012 :1)
- Ecological modernisation:
- Ethnography:
- Cross-borderness:
- Governance:
- Ignorance: Knowing that the knowledge is limited in a certain area. It increases with every state of new knowledge
- Interdisciplinarity:
- Late-modernity:
- Modernity and modernisation:
- Open-source:
- Oversight:
- Professionalization:
- Rationality:
- Reductionism:
- Reflexivity:
- Risk: A situation of uncertainty in which some of the possible outcomes involves an undesirable outcome
- Risk society:
- Self-governance and self-regulation:
- Socialisation:
- Sociology:
- Subpolitics:
- Technologies of hubris:
- Transnationalism:
- Uncertainty: "A situation in which, given current knowledge, there are multiple possible future outcomes" (Gross 2010: 3)
- Upstream:
