Christian Dayé is a sociologist of knowledge, science, and technology at Graz University of Technology in Austria. A prolific author, he received the 2022 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award of the Section History of Sociology & Social Thought of the American Sociological Association for his monography Experts, Social Scientists, and Techniques of Prognosis in Cold War America (2020, Palgrave Macmillan). With Mark Solovey, he co-edited the widely acclaimed volume Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements (2021, Palgrave Macmillan).
Innehållsförteckning
Chapter 1—Introduction.- Chapter 2—A short history of futures studies, and its relations to sociology.- Chapter 3—The sociology of scientific collectives: A conceptual overview.- Chapter 4—Researching scientific attention spaces: Epistemic tribes and territories.- Chapter 5—Epistemic tribes and territories in futures studies.- Chapter 6—Epistemic tribes and territories in the sociology of the future.- Chapter 7—Conclusion: The future of futures thinking in the social sciences.