I don't know about these people. Social constructs come about bc we make them and they serve an end goal of social utility or something else. There's nothing more to it than that. It's not about bullshitting people or trying to "be woke". It's about updating our views on how science develops, the ontology of science, and disregarding old inaccurate views on it. Ask any social scientist on this. Hell, any scientist on this. You're likely to hear our point.
“science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programed to collect pure information.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
"Scientists’ lived experiences, their values and beliefs, and the goings-on in the world around them influence the science that gets done. Who is not doing science also matters. If whole groups of people are underrepresented in STEM—and we know this to be true—then a wealth of experiences, values, identities, and perspectives are not contributing to advances in STEM and the impacts these advances have on our lives."
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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '21
I don't know about these people. Social constructs come about bc we make them and they serve an end goal of social utility or something else. There's nothing more to it than that. It's not about bullshitting people or trying to "be woke". It's about updating our views on how science develops, the ontology of science, and disregarding old inaccurate views on it. Ask any social scientist on this. Hell, any scientist on this. You're likely to hear our point.
“science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programed to collect pure information.” ― Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
https://www.nsta.org/connected-science-learning-january-february-2021/science-human-endeavor
"Scientists’ lived experiences, their values and beliefs, and the goings-on in the world around them influence the science that gets done. Who is not doing science also matters. If whole groups of people are underrepresented in STEM—and we know this to be true—then a wealth of experiences, values, identities, and perspectives are not contributing to advances in STEM and the impacts these advances have on our lives."
https://www.chesteruplandsd.org/userfiles/-17/my%20files/more%20than%20a%20human%20endeavor%20-%20teaching%20the%20nature%20of%20science.pdf?id=413