Anthropology of Science

History of Anthropology of Science

A pivotal moment occurred when anthropologists took the tools that had been developed for studying exotic peoples in exotic locations and applied them to communities of science. Today, the anthropology of science is dominated by laboratory studies that produce ethnographies of how scientific "facts" are produced, how scientists are "made", what scientists actually do, what scientists say, and how scientific practices influence and are influenced by the socioeconomic and political conditions under which they work.

Stories of future science can be seen in Mundane Science Fiction, in which stories of future science scenarios such as gene therapy, advanced cognitive studies and neural advertising abound.