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Out of the Labs and into the Streets: Scientists Get Political
Author(s) -
MacKendrick Norah
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
sociological forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.937
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1573-7861
pISSN - 0884-8971
DOI - 10.1111/socf.12366
Subject(s) - sketch , sociology , politics , action (physics) , political action , key (lock) , epistemology , social science , media studies , political science , law , computer science , philosophy , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer security
Scientists are participating in more visible and vocal forms of political action. In this essay, I sketch key moments in this shift, with the hope of generating new research questions and lines of sociological inquiry. Specifically, I ponder whether this is a new wave of science activism, and if so, how is it different from past forms of science activism? I also ask whether and in what form we, as sociologists, should “stand up for science”?