Science�technology relationship: hierarchical, symbiotic and coalescing; Social context of
production of scientific knowledge: demarcation, autonomy, cognitive authority of science and
technology, and responses; Methods of science; Science as a social institution and the ethos of
science; Inequalities in science and technology: rewards and recognitions; Social legitimation:
interests, meanings and values; Reception of modern science and technology in India; Changing
context of production of scientific knowledge: from public resource to intellectual property; Science
and technology policies in India.
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2. N. Stehr and V. Meja (eds.), Society and Knowledge: Contemporary Perspectives in the Sociology of
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3. E. J. Hackett, O. Amsterdamska, M. Lynch and J. Wajcman (eds.), The Handbook of Science and
Technology Studies, The MIT Press, 2008.
4. T. McGrew, M. Alspector-Kelly and F. Allhoff (eds.), Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology, Wiley-
Blackwell, 2009.
5. S. I. Habib and D. Raina (eds.), Social History of Science in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, 2007.
