The significance of science and technology and the study of its many facets, as well as its positive and negative social indications are increasingly becoming a focus of discussions carried out by politicians, the public, as well as the intellectuals. Reaching sustainable development and comprehending objective and subjective aspects of life-quality require an appropriate understanding that embraces how the social life-world is formed by modes of production and by knowledge, science and technologic achievements.

Scholarly-Specialized Committee on Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Technology is mandated to study various terrains of such a vast domain. The committee deals, in particular, with issues such as social responsibilities of science and technology, knowledge development, science and technology in interaction with historical and social contexts, the role played by the cultural elite and intellectuals in development and promotion of social knowledge. Writers and researchers active in social studies on knowledge are invited to assist us, through their membership and cooperation, in reaching the following goals