Science organizations and careers : essential tensions. / Daryl E. Chubin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chubin, Daryl E., author.

Series:

Cultural studies in the third millennium

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chubin, Daryl E.

National Science Foundation (U.S.)--Officials and employees--Biography.

National Science Foundation (U.S.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (157 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2020]

Summary:

"What can one life teach about the unfolding of opportunities into developing careers? From a 20th century social scientist at the forefront of science education and science policy who transitioned between positions in universities, federal agencies, and nonprofit organizations, we learn 21st century lessons. Daryl Chubin speaks to students, educators, and program directors about demographic changes, forms of scholarship, the functions of community, and marginality as an analytical perspective on the contexts of careers. Science Organizations and Careers illustrates that social science differs from natural science and engineering. Each has its methods, norms, and heroes, but social science looks in and is parasitic on scientists and engineers-administrators in research institutions, scholars, elected officials, and educators at all levels of sophistication. These have been Chubin's subjects, colleagues, and conundrums. They have shaped him, bent him toward their view, educated, alienated, and applauded him. Readers, too, will have their own characters, organizations, and ambivalence with which to cope in the contradictions of their careers. This book helps to make sense of it all"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

In sequence

In context

On difference

The NSF I knew

Public policy and the evaluation of talent

Three for the show

What is scholarship?

Contradictions of a career

On talking with strangers.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5361-7511-0