| The research programme on Science, Technology and Society studies the relations between technology, science and society. The research heuristics comprise a combination of philosophical, historical, sociological and anthropological approaches. The central question is how modern societies are constituted by science and technology, and how, vice versa, social and cultural conditions shape technological and scientific developments. The research focuses on the 20th and 21st centuries, with explicit attention for the historical roots in the 17th-19th centuries. The central tenet is that science (including the humanities and social sciences) and technology (in its material forms and as a discipline) are such pervasive constituents of highly developed societies that our modern culture can only be understood when these key roles are recognized and explicitly studied. |
