Our culture is a scientific one, defining what is natural and what is rational. Its values can be seen in what are sought out as facts and made as artefacts, what are designed as processes and products, and what are forged as weapons and filmed as wonders. In our daily experience, power is exercised through expertise, e.g. in science, technology and medicine. Science as Culture explores how all these shape the values which contend for influence over the wider society.
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David King & Les Levidow, Science as Culture, vol.25 no.3 pp.367-372, August 2016.
Contesting Science and Technology, from the 1970s to the Present
Societal issues increasingly revolve around new roles of science and technology, or more subtly on technical expertise. This narrowly defines societal problems as technological ones, potentially (re)gaining hegemony for the dominant order, and pre-empting alternative futures. Such elite strategies have been contested for several decades, generating counter-hegemonic resistance, oppositional alliances, and alternatives of many kinds. Those conflicts have an important legacy from the 1970s to 1980s, when political activists formed national organisations in the US and UK.
