关键词: 科学技术论, 知识, 科学, 社会秩序, 共生

Abstract: In the latter half of the 20th century, science and social order are more closely co-produced together, that is, the fact-producing and nature reshaping process in human practices are closely intertwined with the process of social order-building and social norms-constructing How scientific knowledge and social order are specifically established in the process? And how does cultural and social factors play a role in the process? Since the 1970s, scholars have already attempted to make explanations based on various researches, disclosing patterns of constitutive and interactional co-production, co-producing instruments and important factors, such as civic epistemologies, sociotechnical imaginaries, and constitutionalism. In the past decade, the theory of co-production has gradually become more sophisticated, constituting the core theory and a new research turn in the field of Science and Technology Studies, providing a powerful theoretical framework for analyzing the knowledge society and knowledge politics. The theory is still in need of being further developed by more extensive empirical and comparative studies.