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对科技与社会研究中的顶尖国际期刊Social Study of Science(SSS)2010-2013年间最新发表文章的选题、方法以及新颖观点进行追踪和关注,并展开反思性的思考,有利于借鉴国际思路和方法推进我国STS(Science,Technology,and Society)领域的学科建设。本文分别就SSS近年来的三个主要关注点和新颖议题进行梳理,包括生命技术科学的社会研究,司法鉴定科学的社会研究,以及社会科学的社会研究。同时发现在研究方法上更加偏重实证研究并强调实证方法的多样化,混合而非单一的实证方法(mixed-methods)逐步成为科学的社会研究中的主流。
Tracking and paying attention to the topics, methods and novel ideas of the latest published articles in the Social Studies of Science (SSS) 2010-2013 in the study of science and society and conducting reflective thinking, which is conducive to drawing lessons from international thinking and Methods to promote China’s STS (Science, Technology, and Society) discipline construction. This article reviews three major concerns and novel topics of SSS in recent years, including the social sciences of life sciences, the social studies of forensic sciences, and the social studies of social sciences. At the same time, it is found that more emphasis is placed on empirical research in research methods and emphasis on the diversification of empirical methods. The mixed but not the sole method of mixing (mixed-methods) has gradually become the mainstream in scientific social studies.