SOC 231Sociology of Science
- Faculty
- Arts
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1978–79 to 1994–95 (before that, 1972–73 used the number for Micro-Economic Analysis and Policy); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
An examination of the social character of the development of science and the production of scientific knowledge. Specific topics will include defining science, cultural influences on the rise of science, the social nature of scientific institutions, selective bias in scientific procedures, and the social “construction” of scientific “facts.”
As printed in the 1993–94 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 1995–96If it ran past 1994–95, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1972–73 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1993–94 to 1994–95 2 calendars
An examination of the social character of the development of science and the production of scientific knowledge. Specific topics will include defining science, cultural influences on the rise of science, the social nature of scientific institutions, selective bias in scientific procedures, and the social “construction” of scientific “facts.”
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of instructor
2 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1989–90 to 1992–93 4 calendars
This course will explore the production of scientific knowledge in its social historical content, using a case study approach. Specific topics will include scientific objectivity, diseases in social context, selective bias and the logic of positivism.
Prereq: SOC 101 or consent of the instructor
2 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
Not in the 1981–82 to 1988–89 calendars.
1978–79 to 1980–81 3 calendars
Titled Industrial Sociology.
Special emphasis is given in lectures, readings and assignments to the particular problems facing industrial Canada especially in reference to regionalism, elitism, the multinational enterprise and the problem of foreign ownership.
Offered Fall · 2 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.
Not in the 1973–74 to 1977–78 calendars.
1972–73 1 calendar
Another title: Micro-Economic Analysis and Policy, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Analysis of public and private choices among users of scarce resources. The interaction of choices to form micro systems. Examples of policy questions; costs and benefits of alternative methods of pollution control, pricing of private and public goods.