Overview
This book is essential for anyone interested in knowing how science works nationally and internationally in the contemporary world. It offers a comprehensive analysis of scientific collaboration and its relation to development and the productivity of scientists, with specific reference to South Africa in both the past and the present.
Full Product Details
Author: R. Sooryamoorthy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 4.679kg
ISBN: 9781137493064
ISBN 10: 1137493062
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 20 March 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The first cohesive attempt to provide the empirical weight of evidence to support sociologists' claims and long-held suspicions about knowledge production and scientific advancement being a community initiative ... . should be mandatory reading for policy makers, academics, especially early career academics and anyone with a broad interest in the sociology of knowledge production. ... It is excellent book overall that should find a place in local libraries given its contribution to the sociology of knowledge production in South Africa. (Shaun Ruggunan, South African Review of Sociology, Vol. 47 (2), 2016)
The book draws on considerable empirical material, drawn from national and international quantitative data: historical documents, archival data, bibliometric records of publications ... as well as 200 interviews with scientists and academics. ... The book shows that, in institution-initiated collaboration, individual scientists are again the main actors. ... the book contributes to a better understanding of the current transformations of North-North, North-South, and South-South relations. (Lynda Sifer-Riviere, International Sociology Reviews, Vol. 32 (5), 2018) The first cohesive attempt to provide the empirical weight of evidence to support sociologists' claims and long-held suspicions about knowledge production and scientific advancement being a community initiative ... . should be mandatory reading for policy makers, academics, especially early career academics and anyone with a broad interest in the sociology of knowledge production. ... It is excellent book overall that should find a place in local libraries given its contribution to the sociology of knowledge production in South Africa. (Shaun Ruggunan, South African Review of Sociology, Vol. 47 (2), 2016)
Author Information
R. Sooryamoorthy is Professor of Sociology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
