- What is science? What, if anything, makes science different from other ways of exploring and understanding the world?
- Is science political? That is, do politics and science interact with each other? Should they? Why? Why not?
- What does the term ‘social construction’ seem to imply? What might it mean to say that something is socially constructed? Can we think of examples?
- What might it mean to say that science, technology, and/or medicine are socially constructed??? Isn’t a fact just, well, a fact?!
- Who goes into STEM in the first place? Within STEM, who is more likely to specialize in certain fields/disciplines? What might we expect to see in terms of pay in STEM?
- What variables or factors might account for patterns of gender and other disparities in STEM?
- Are there steps that might be taken to reduce or eliminate gender and other disparities in STEM?
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