His subject was the relationship between science and society.
A new contract between science and society is urgently required.
Over the past two decades, we have experienced a revolution in the relationship between science and society.
The general question of the relationship between science and society is currently very high on the government's agenda.
It is a world in which phrases such as "a new social contract between science and society" actually mean something.
He spent the last years of his life working out ideas on the relationship between science and society.
Denialism does its damage by driving a wedge between science and society, undermining public understanding of science with misinformation and confusing pseudo-debate.
This contentious concept tiptoes along the intersection between science and society because it implies that scientific endeavours ought to reap benefits for society.
Science is and has always been one of Britain's greatest assets and I am confident that the time has come for a new deal between science and society.
Dorothy Nelkin, a New York University sociologist who chronicled the uneasy relationship between science and society, died on Wednesday at her home in Manhattan.
Most attempts at definition end up with piles of elementary facts, some ideas about the nature of science and, perhaps, the relations between science and society.
