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The BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society was an international centre for research and policy on social aspects of the life sciences and biomedicine located at the London School of Economics (LSE), England. It was founded in 2002 by Professor Nikolas Rose, a prominent British sociologist.
Before moving to King's College London, he was the James Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, director and founder of LSE's BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society from 2002 to 2011, and Head of the LSE Department of Sociology (2002–2006).
Richard Twine (born 1974) is a British sociologist whose research addresses environmental sociology as well as gender, human/animal and science studies. [1] He is noted for his "foundational" work in critical animal studies. [2]
Furthermore, he has published articles in German, French, and English in leading international journals such as Critical Social Studies, Distinktion, New Genetics and Society, Sociology, and Theory, Culture & Society. His work has been frequently cited in scholarly and public debates and he regularly contributes to the intellectual discourse in ...
Sociotechnology (short for "social technology") is the study of processes on the intersection of society and technology. [1] Vojinović and Abbott define it as "the study of processes in which the social and the technical are indivisibly combined". [2]
[1] The sociology of scientific ignorance (SSI) is complementary to the sociology of scientific knowledge. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] For comparison, the sociology of knowledge studies the impact of human knowledge and the prevailing ideas on societies and relations between knowledge and the social context within which it arises.
2010 Patrick at Winter Commencement at the University of Kentucky, where he majored in sociology and minored in psychology. 2008 Patrick and his mother celebrating his 21st birthday. 2003 Patrick with his mother at an Easter dinner.
The importance of stone tools, circa 2.5 million years ago, is considered fundamental in the human development in the hunting hypothesis. [citation needed]Primatologist, Richard Wrangham, theorizes that the control of fire by early humans and the associated development of cooking was the spark that radically changed human evolution. [2]