Article ID: CBB000640502

On the Genesis of Technoscience: A Case Study of German Agricultural Education (2005)

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Harwood, Jonathan H. (Author)


Perspectives on Science
Volume: 13
Pages: 329--351


Publication Date: 2005
Edition Details: Special issue on Technoscientic Productivity
Language: English

Though many are agreed that "technoscience" is a significant phenomenon, little systematic attention has yet been paid to the circumstances under which it has emerged. Technoscience is conceptualized here as the outcome of a process of convergence in which technological knowledge acquires many of the characteristics of scientific knowledge while the latter shifts in the opposite direction. The analytical problem is then a matter of understanding why such "drift" has occurred at particular times and places. The drift of higher technical education toward science has been observed in a variety of domains including engineering and medicine, but in this paper I identify such a trend in late nineteenth and early twentieth century agricultural education, with particular reference to Bavaria. The process is interpreted using a model of institutional dynamics loosely based upon Bourdieu's concept of the academic "field."

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Authors & Contributors
Riekher, Rolf
Hamel, Jürgen
Dick, Wolfgang R.
Kornhuber, Johannes
Raphael Bezerra da Silva Uchôa
Pasche, Eckart
Concepts
Agriculture
Science education and teaching
Science and technology, relationships
Botany
Agricultural chemistry
Psychiatric hospitals
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
20th century
Places
Bavaria (Germany)
Germany
New Zealand
Europe
Nymphenburg Castle
Barcelona (Spain)
Institutions
University of Padua
Escuela de Agricultura y Botánica (Barcelona)
Bologna. Università
Università di Pavia
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