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Mar 3, 2020 · An extraordinary amount of science fiction (SF) carries significant content of a moralistic nature consistently reflecting concerns about social becoming nested within the context of the times the works were written (Blackford, 2017).
Aug 1, 2018 · Sociologists will need new metaphors, new ideal types, new counterfactuals, and new guiding lights as we navigate the 21st century. We face new problems, like anthropogenic climate change, and old, enduring ones, like the Color Line. Science fiction can help.
- Daniel Hirschman, Philip Schwadel, Rick Searle, Erica Deadman, Ijlal Naqvi
- 2018
Oct 9, 2020 · Techne is empirical in the sense that science fiction refers to the experience of the existence of an empirically based world, and the survey of science fiction readers finds clear and practical categories that separate science fiction from fantasy literature.
- Christopher Benjamin Menadue, Kristi Giselsson, David Guez
- 2020
Social science fiction is noteworthy on several levels: first, as a cultural phenomenon; second, as a medium of social commentary and criticism; and third (perhaps parenthetically) as a pleasant counterpoint to some of the more pedantic complacencies of the social scientists.
Social fiction is a broad term to describe any work of speculative fiction that features social commentary (as opposed to, say, hypothetical technology) in the foreground. Social science fiction is a subgenre thereof, where social commentary (cultural or political) takes place in a sci-fi universe.
Jan 3, 2018 · When Science Fiction Meets Social Science. Sci-fi author Ada Palmer explains why she goes less into the details of antimatter engines and more into sociological questions of of state formation,...
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First, we explore how the social sciences have employed science fiction; second, we examine how sf has addressed the social sciences; third, we consider how sf criticism has made use of social theory; and finally, we analyze how sf has itself emerged as a social science methodology. We conclude by.
