STS(Science and Technology Studies;or Science,Technology and Society)is an inter-disciplinary field,which is composed of a group of disciplines,including history of science,philosophy of science,sociology of science,etc.Simply put,it is social/cultural studies of science/technology.STS in China was transitioned from the Dialectics of Nature after 1980s,and currently,many scholars of STS work in philosophy departments.The field of STS inherits some temperament of Western philoso-phy,such as the pursuit of universality,absoluteness,and certainty,and the pursuit of ultimate cause,even the only truth.Therefore,anthropology,have been accepting cultural relativism as its premise,might be a dissolve to those notions in STS.In the history of STS,a certain of scholars have been influ-enced by anthropology and have adopted anthropological methods,such as SSK(Sociology of Scientific Knowledge)and Philosophy of Scientific Practice.In the academic paradigm of STS,especially philoso-phy of science,the text is generally regarded as the top priority,while the social reality and the life expe-rience of individuals are less concerned.Anthropology,on the other hand,takes fieldwork as its basic method and the foundation of its theory.The future STS needs to face social realities and draw conceptu-al and methodological nourishment from anthropology.Nature History or Bowuology(博物学)is a new paradigm of STS,and nature history and anthropology have overlaps in methods,concepts,and objects.The intersection of disciplines is a trend,and anthropology and STS may coexist and construct each other.
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