Bammé, Arno

Erklären oder intervenieren?

Wissenschaft neu interpretiert.

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Radits, Franz

Rauch, Franz

Kattmann, Ulrich

Gemeinsam Forschen - Gemeinsam Lernen.

Innsbruck

2005

33-54

Abstract

This essay is a historical analysis of the term 'science' from a sociologicol perspective. Since modernity science has lefi its ivory tower and developed a progressive urge within society to explain the world, thus mutating into a science of interventiw. In order to make this new kind of science coherent and to understand how it intervenes actively and how it conveys and generates socially powerful knowledge, this essay pulls together concepts of post modernism, post industrial society ond knowledge society.
Two examples, namely the functional chain of DDT and the role of the shepherds in Cumbria after the Chernobyl disaster demonstrate the limitations of academic science. They reveal the fact that socio-political decision-making processes have to include a dialogue between the stakeholders who are interested in a solution of the problem and the decision-makers themselves. First principles of a new science will be based thereupon and sketched in relation to science and scholarship. Analogously the essay finishes with the theory that 'nothing can serve the validity of scientific findings better than the continuous discourse of all people involved in and afected by problems of any field: nature, science or action research.'

Prolog

1. Die postindustrielle Gesellschaft und das Schlagwort von der Wissensgesellschaft

2. Die Zukunft der Wissenschaft

3. Postmodernes Denken - die entzauberte Wissenschaft

4. Der Advent der neuen Wissenschaft

5. Die Wissenschaft der Zukunft

&. Epilog