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Team:UCL/Humans/Soci/Glos
From 2014.igem.org
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:
- Accountability:
- Black-boxing:
- Commodification:
- Deskilling:
- Discourse:
- Dual-use technology:
- 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:
- 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:
