301 Interfaces between the technical world and the lived reality.

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
APT 120 (Faculty of Economics)

RC23 Sociology of Science and Technology (host committee)

Language: English
Session Organizer:
Czarina SALOMA-AKPEDONU, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
The framing of obesity in France: Between a sciences war and coalitions (Oral Presentation)
Philippe TERRAL, PRISSMH University of Toulouse, France; Fabien MERLAUD, PRISSMH University of Toulouse, France

Deconstructing and reifying “Asian” and ethnicities in Asia: Exploring HUGO pan-Asian SNP consortium's work (Oral Presentation)
Shirley Hsiao-Li SUN, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

The new status of Russian science: The results of reforms for last 20 years in the scientific sphere (Oral Presentation)
Nadia ASHEULOVA, Centre for the Sociology of Science Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Russia; Svetlana DUSHINA, Research Fellow, Russia

Productivity of research in natural sciences, technology and clinical medicine of 48 east Asian and north european top 300 ranked universities: A comparison of 8 countries scoring high in science and mathematics PISA (Oral Presentation)
Osmo KIVINEN, University of Turku, Finland; Juha HEDMAN, University of Turku, Finland; Päivi KAIPAINEN, University of Turku, Finland

Reproductive technologies and systems of kinship (Distributed Paper)
Rosa PEDRO, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Ana SZAPIRO, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil