浮动的符号“&”:STS研究的过去与未来

On Floating Symbol “&”: The Past and Future of STS Research

STS是一个跨学科研究领域,以科学技术及其与社会的相互关联为研究对象。当前,科学技术快速发展,其与世界其他部分的关系也正在发生深刻变化,STS随之发展成一门学科,因为它向人们提供了解读与理解世界的新方法。但其仍然是两种相互联系但又相互独立的学术传统的混合体,两种传统都缩写为STS。科学技术学是指将科学技术作为一种社会制度来进行研究;而科学技术与社会则分析了科学技术与其他社会制度的外部关系。通过梳理STS学者们共同关注的重点议题,从STS的学术传统、STS的跨学科性、STS学科化的前景、STS的未来发展趋势等方面对问题域进行考察与分析,反思了科学技术学与科学技术与社会之间的模糊性对将STS制度化为一个独立领域的影响。

STS takes interdisciplinary research on science and technology and its interrelationship with society.At present,with the rapid development of science and technology,its relationship with other parts of the world is undergoing profound changes.STS has developed into a discipline,because it can provide people with a new way to interpret and understand the world.However,it is still a mixture of two interrelated but independent academic traditional disciplined,both of which are abbreviated as STS.Science and Technology Studies makes a study of science and technology as a social system;Science,Technology and Society analyzes the external relationship between science and technology and other social systems.This paper combs the key issues that STS scholars concerns in common,inspects and analyzes the problem domains from the academic tradition of STS,the interdisciplinary nature of STS,the disciplinary prospect of STS,the future development trend of STS,and fi nally refl ects on the impact of this fuzziness on institutionalizing STS as an independent fi eld.