Content(List of the topics/sub-topics to be covered in the lectures/practicals/assignments): How technoscientific and social phenomena interact and influence each other?How scientific knowledge and technological artifacts are constructed?In what ways technologies mediate our perception of reality? How gender, race, and other social inequalities are reproduced or amplified bytechnologies? How do we distribute the risks and benefits of S&T?How can public govern and influence the trajectory of scientific research? 10.Texts / References (The total number to be restricted to 63022268. Web references may be given, especially for e-books. Complete details of Texts/References should be provided. Book:Authors (Initials & Last name), Title, Edition (Optional), Publisher, Year. Journal Articles:Authors (Initials & Last name), Title, Journal name, Volume, Page nos., Year. Web References: Authors/Organization, Title, Year (if available), URL.).For e-references mention the e-link.Sergio Sismondo, An Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, 2ndedition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch, The Golem: What You Should Know About Science, 2ndedition, Cambridge University Press, 1998.Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 50th Anniversary edition, University of Chicago Press, 2 Robert K. Merton, The normative structure of science, in The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations, University of Chicago Press, 1973.Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, Laboratory Life: The Construction of ScientificFacts, 2nd edition, Princeton University Press, 1986.Wiebe Bijker,Of BicyclesBakelites and Bulbs: Toward a theory of sociotechnical changes, MIT Press, 1997.Nelly Oudshoorn andTrevor Pinch,How users matter: The co-construction of users and technologies, MIT Press, 2003.Langdon Winner,Do Artifacts Have Politics? Daedalus, Vol. 109, 121-136, 1980.