TY  - GEN
T1  - Science and Social Inequality : Feminist and Postcolonial Issues
T2  - Book collections on Project MUSE.
A1  - Harding, Sandra G.
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2006
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1409031003
AB  - "In Science and Social Inequality, Sandra Harding makes the provocative argument that the philosophy and practices of today's Western science, contrary to its Enlightenment mission, work to insure that more science will only worsen existing gaps between the best and worst off around the world. She defends this claim by exposing the ways that hierarchical social formations in modern Western sciences encode antidemocratic principles and practices, particularly in terms of their services to militarism, the impoverishment and alienation of labor, Western expansion, and environmental destruction. The essays in this collection--drawing on feminist, multicultural, and postcolonial studies--propose ways to reconceptualize the sciences in the global social order. At issue here are not only social justice and environmental issues but also the accuracy and comprehensiveness of our understandings of natural and social worlds. The inadvertent complicity of the sciences with antidemocratic projects obscures natural and social realities and thus blocks the growth of scientific knowledge. Scientists, policy makers, social justice movements and the consumers of scientific products (that is, the rest of us) can work together and separately to improve this situation."--
CN  - HM891 .H37 2006
SN  - 0252047095
SN  - 0252030605
SN  - 9780252030604
SN  - 0252073045
SN  - 9780252073045
SN  - 9780252047091
KW  - Science : Social aspects : Developing countries.
KW  - Science and civilization.
KW  - Postcolonialism.
KW  - Feminism and science.
KW  - Progress.
KW  - Sciences : Aspect social : Pays en voie de développement.
KW  - Sciences et civilisation.
KW  - Postcolonialisme.
KW  - Féminisme et sciences.
KW  - Progrès.
KW  - postcolonialism.
KW  - 08.44 social philosophy.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - Science : Social aspects
KW  - Science and civilization
KW  - Progress
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Feminism and science
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Wissenschaftlicher Fortschritt
KW  - Soziale Ungleichheit
KW  - Westliche Welt
KW  - Sociale rechtvaardigheid.
KW  - Postkolonialisme.
KW  - Antiracisme.
KW  - Feminisme.
KW  - Wetenschap.
ER  -