Social Science as Expertise, Social Scientists as Experts – Spring Term 2017 6 lectures + two seminars Culminating in two weeks project work encompassing tutorial meetings Examination: 2 hec per individual seminar assignment 2.5 hec for written project work 1.0 hec for project presentation

What to Read When Seminar 1 – Burawoy (2005); Evans (2008); Flyvbjerg (2006); Jasanoff (2003); Maasen and Weingart (2005); Nowotny (2003); Osborne (2004); Rose and Miller (1992); Turner (2001) Seminar 2 – Asdal and Marres (2014); Barthe, Elam and Sundqvist (2014); Bogner (2011); Elam (2004); Gabrys (2014); Franzoni and Sauermann (2104); Irwin (2001); Irwin (2006); Laurent (2011); Sundqvist (2014) + Project work literature

Expert Latin origin Experiri Expertus Expert (from 15th Century) ’Try’ Same Latin root as Experience and Experiment Person wise from experience escalating use from early 1800s

Problematizing Science and Society – Technology and Politics New Era in the Historical Problematization of Experts and Expertise (1990-) Some Relevant Events 1994 New Production of Knowledge + 2001 Re-thinking Science: Knowledge and the Public in an Age of Uncertainty In Sweden ’Wage-Earner Funds’ Become Strategic Research Funds – Mistra SSF… Commercialization of Research New Priority

From the Government to the Governance of Science and Technology MODE 2 KEYWORDS: ACCOUNTABILITY AND INNOVATION

Osborne’s Knowledge Workers Knowledge Public Masters Values Public Masters Elite Advisors, Programming the Future, Technocrats e.g Brian Abel-Smith, Torsten Gustafson Gibbons/Nowotny? Giddens? Interpreters, Public Intellectuals, e.g. CW Mills, Bauman, Habermas, Beck, Foucault, Urry Phronetic Social Scientist? Public Servants Experts – Making Things Calculable Social Engineers Backroom boys Invisible technicians Mediators Brokers of new ideas, fixers, networkers, drawing people and things together

Burawoy’s Sociological Division of Labour Academic Audience Extra-Academic Audience Instrumental Knowledge Professional Sociology Policy Sociology Reflexive Knowledge Critical Sociology Public Sociology