SCIENCE IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND PUBLIC POLICY |
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| Authors: | William N Dunn rea M Hegedus Burkart Holzner |
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| Institution: | Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and the School of Library and Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, and Director of the Program for the Study of Knowledge Use. He is co-director of the NSF-sponsored project titled "The Impact of Science on American Society." He has authored and edited books, articles, and government reports in areas of public policy analysis, science policy, planned social change, and research utilization. His recent publications include Public Policy Analysis (1981), Values, Ethics and the Practice of Policy Analysis (1983), and Policy Analysis: Perspectives, Concepts, and Methods (1986). He is presently servings as President of the Policy Studies Organization.;currently completing her doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pit- tsburgh, with a specialization in public policy research and analysis. In the past year she served as a Health Policy Fellow at the Health Policy In- stitute, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, and as a Visiting Scientist with the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Her research interests include biomedical science policy, technology assess- ment, and the social impact of science.;Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for International Studies, University of Pittsburgh. He is Director of the NSF-sponsored project titled "The Impact of Science on American Society." His books include Reality Construction in Society and (as co-author) Knowledge Application: The Knowledge System in Society, Identity and Authority, Directions of Change: Modernization Theory, Research and Realities, and Organizing for Social Research. His articles and essays have dealt with issues in socio-logical theory, sociology of knowledge, compara- tive science development, research organizations, and knowledge utilization. |
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| Abstract: | In recent years a number of important science policy issues have rentered on questions about the social utility of science. The field of knowledge systems accounting has evolved as a special form of social impact assessment to observe and measure the impact of science on society. A system of social impacts of science (SIS) indicators has been developed as an attempt to represent these complex patterns and relationships. In the final analysis, the causal relevance of science to social performance depends on our capacity to link the complex knowledge system of modern science to the achievement of social goals. |
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