Almost every convo about STS as a field ends up in a debate about this very question!
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I considered attending HSS but decided since this was the one conference no one had encouraged me to attend, that was a sign. 4S and SHOT by contrast a previous attendee encouraged me to apply/invited me to speak.
"HSS is the best you should attend it" — how is that for future attendance decisions? 
They each have a different "flavor" to them (and different, though sometimes overlapping, groups of people), for better and worse.
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This is why it's important to go to conferences even when it seems "early"! How better to discover which flavor you like best than by meeting the communities?
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HSS is one I wish I went to more; it’s often too close to NACBS for me to do both. SSHA (soc sci hist) struck me as very internally divided b/w “real” social scientists and others doing more qualitative social history and then people like me doing history of social science.
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probably thanks to this thread, I just responded to a dark matter discussion with the following opening: (Putting on my science, technology, and society studies hat) Part of the issue is that people have typically focused on one mass regime OR the other but not both
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