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SCIENCE RELIGION AND SOCIAL THEORY (6855 words) |
 | Thus, critique of science or positivism may be somewhat inappropriate given direct recognition of the actual impossibility of objectivity within the practice and philosophy of the natural, medical, and physical sciences and in logical positivist oriented social science. |
| Science of the time, even though formally stated as an antidote to religion, was cast in a mode of inquiry and explanation that resembled religious practice in several ways. |
| Philosophy and study of science is replete with consideration of observation as mediated by social construction, representation, or instrumentation (Bhaskar, 1978; Latour, 1987; Collins, 1998; Myers, 1990; Woolgar and Pawluch, 1985; Law, 1990; Woolgar, 1988). |
| Science (8490 words) |
| Science covers the broad field of knowledge that deals with observed facts and the relationships among those facts. |
| The term applied science is sometimes used to refer to scientific research that concentrates on the development of technology. |
| Numerous areas of science overlap, and it is often hard to tell where one science ends and another begins. |
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