Episode 19 - Ruth Hubbard > Comments > "Sociology of Science"
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- "Episode 19 - Ruth Hubbard"
- Summary: HOW TO THINK ABOUT SCIENCE: Part Nineteen of a documentary by David Cayley, a producer with the CBC Radio program IDEAS. Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Clips include: Ruth Hubbard, Harvard's first tenured female professor biology, and one of the first women to raise the question of male bias in science.
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Sociology of Science
T K
Posted on May 02, 2011 at 06:36 PM
Ruth Hubbard brings to light the importance of the role society and culture play in science. This is a very important aspect of science that most people (including scientists) don't think about very critically. Science does not objectively learn about the world and the way it works. Rather, the things scientists study and the way this information is used depends on the political and economical agenda of those who possess the knowledge.