Expository Science: Forms and Functions of PopularisationT. Shinn, Richard P. Whitley Springer Science & Business Media, 30 juin 1985 - 294 pages The prevailing view of scientific popularization, both within academic circles and beyond, affirms that its objectives and procedures are unrelated to tasks of cognitive development and that its pertinence is by and large restricted to the lay public. Consistent with this view, popularization is frequently portrayed as a logical and hence inescapable consequence of a culture dominated by science-based products and procedures and by a scientistic ideology. On another level, it is depicted as a quasi-political device for chan nelling the energies of the general public along predetermined paths; examples of this are the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution and the U. S. -Soviet space race. Alternatively, scientific popularization is described as a carefully contrived plan which enables scientists or their spokesmen to allege that scientific learn ing is equitably shared by scientists and non-scientists alike. This manoeuvre is intended to weaken the claims of anti-scientific protesters that scientists monopolize knowledge as a means of sustaining their social privileges. Pop ularization is also sometimes presented as a psychological crutch. This, in an era of increasing scientific specialisation, permits the researchers involved to believe that by transcending the boundaries of their narrow fields, their endeavours assume a degree of general cognitive importance and even extra scientific relevance. Regardless of the particular thrust of these different analyses it is important to point out that all are predicated on the tacit presupposition that scientific popularization belongs essentially to the realm of non-science, or only concerns the periphery of scientific activity. |
Table des matières
JOSKE BUNDERS and RICHARD WHITLEY Popularisation with | 61 |
Textual Structures | 79 |
GERARD DE VRIES and HANS HARBERS Attuning Science | 103 |
GREGORY CLAEYS The Reaction to Political Radicalism and | 119 |
The Case | 139 |
An Essay | 163 |
Social Deter | 209 |
NATHAN REINGOLD MetroGoldwynMayer Meets the Atom | 229 |
A Case | 249 |
MAX GOLDSTROM Popular Political Economy for the British | 259 |
VICTOR MCELHENY Impacts of PresentDay Popularisation | 277 |
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Expressions et termes fréquents
19th century arguments audiences behaviour Bush chromosome classes cognitive concept Crick cytogenetics Davy Davy's Découverte discovery discussion Double Helix Einstein esoteric example exposition expository category Expository Science fact film Francis Crick Functions of Popularisation geology Georges Claude goals Groves Heek Heek's Hermann von Helmholtz Humphry Davy Ibid ideas image of science imagery important industrial intellectual inter-specialist interest Journal laboratory lectures London metaphors molecular biology nature Oppenheimer organised Palais paper Paris particular pedagogical Perrin phenomena physics political economy popular present problems references Richard Whitley eds Rudolf Virchow Sarah Trimmer scientific community scientific knowledge scientists Shinn and Richard significance Simon Gray social society Sociology specialist structure technical techniques Terry Shinn texts textual theoretical theory theory of relativity thought style tion truth unproductive labour Watson XYY male XYY Syndrome Y chromosome
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Between Understanding and Trust: The Public, Science and Technology Meinolf Dierkes,Claudia von Grote Aucun aperçu disponible - 2000 |