Books in the Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook series

New institutional arrangements, new fields of study and research, new patterns of funding and support, new relations with industry, the academy and the state, and new professional roles have marked the sciences and technology;

New institutional arrangements, new fields of study and research, new patterns of funding and support, new relations with industry, the academy and the state, and new professional roles have marked the sciences and technology;

This volume offers one of the first systematic analyses of the rise of modern social science. Contrary to the standard accounts of various social science disciplines, the essays in this volume demonstrate that modern social science actually emerged during the critical period between 1750 and 1850.

This book examines the historical roots and evolution of simulation from an epistemological, institutional and technical perspective. This book is an essential contribution to the assessment of simulation as scientific instrument.

" Such pessimism, he continued, "is fed by growing doubts about soci ety's ability to rein in the seemingly runaway forces of technology, though the participants conceded that in many instances technology was more the symbol than the substance of the problem.

This new Yearbook addresses the question of how policy, place, and organization are made to matter for a new research field to emerge.