Understanding Popular ScienceMcGraw-Hill Education (UK), 2006 M06 1 - 183 páginas Understanding Popular Science provides a framework to help understand the development of popular science and current debates about it. In a lively and accessible style, Peter Broks shows how popular science has been invented, redefined and fought over. |
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... First published 2006 Copyright © Peter Broks, 2006 All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or ...
... First published 2006 Copyright © Peter Broks, 2006 All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or ...
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... first scientists striving to popularize evolution in the US meant that he was hardly distracted by the bitter attacks waged by critics against his new maga— zine (several of whom disparaged it as the devilish labour of atheists, amongst ...
... first scientists striving to popularize evolution in the US meant that he was hardly distracted by the bitter attacks waged by critics against his new maga— zine (several of whom disparaged it as the devilish labour of atheists, amongst ...
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... First mention must go to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol, for providing me with research leave to write the book: it would not have been possible otherwise. I am also ...
... First mention must go to the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of the West of England, Bristol, for providing me with research leave to write the book: it would not have been possible otherwise. I am also ...
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... first appears. Indeed, it has been suggested that 'popular science' is an 'unworkable analytical category' and that it would be best if it were abandoned (Topham 1998; Secord 2004). This need not trouble us unduly since an array of ...
... first appears. Indeed, it has been suggested that 'popular science' is an 'unworkable analytical category' and that it would be best if it were abandoned (Topham 1998; Secord 2004). This need not trouble us unduly since an array of ...
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... first four chapters of this book show how popular science has been invented, redefined and fought over; how it has been a force for social revolution and for social control; and how it has both legitimated the authority of science and ...
... first four chapters of this book show how popular science has been invented, redefined and fought over; how it has been a force for social revolution and for social control; and how it has both legitimated the authority of science and ...
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Chapter 01 UNCERTAIN TIMES | |
Chapter 02 PROGRESS AND PROFESSIONALISM | |
Chapter 03 SCIENCE AND MODERNITY | |
Chapter 04 CONSUMING DOUBTS | |
Chapter 05 LITERACY AND LEGITIMATION | |
Chapter 06 GOING CRITICAL | |
Chapter 07 CONCEPTUAL SPACE | |
Glossary | |
Bibliography | |
Back cover | |
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