1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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 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

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

7. 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

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