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- Title
FRAGMENTATION IN SCIENCE: THE CASE OF FUTUROLOGY.
- Authors
Hannigan, John A.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the cooptation of science by power institutions in the larger society. The systems of patronage, both private and governmental, have been increasing in importance throughout the present century and this has been accompanied by a steady decline in collegiate control of the scientific community. The scientific technostructure in the post- industrial state is increasingly manipulated by powerful "complexes" and that this leads to a kind of science which is not committed to discovery or service to society, but rather to projects or programming aimed at accumulating and developing institutional resources. This trend toward a more externally controlled science has had several significant consequences. First of all, it has resulted in a proliferating number of specialty areas. This as a process of "fragmentation" which results in the emergence of multiple isolated compartments whose concepts and techniques are designed primarily to solve "local" problems.
- Subjects
SCIENCE &; society; COOPTATION; ASSIMILATION (Sociology); TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; SCIENTIFIC community; ESTIMATION theory; SCIENTIFIC method
- Publication
Sociological Review, 1980, Vol 28, Issue 2, p317
- ISSN
0038-0261
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-954X.1980.tb00367.x