Science, Knowledge & Technology: A Globalizing Approach

Everything is involved with science, knowledge, and technology: from education to punishment, from communication to healthcare, from voting to investment, from policymaking to activism, and from developmental initiatives to nation building. This course 1) introduces how sociology studies broadly defined science, knowledge, and technology; 2) bridges the sociological literature on science, knowledge, and technology with related social scientific domains such as organization theory, economic and political sociology, and inequality and intersectionality; 3) attempts to break the “selection bias” in the literature by covering a wider range of societies (especially the institutionally “significant others” like China and Russia) and their interactions.