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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... authorities upon the subjects which they treat.' Hence his firm belief that publications such as Popular Science Monthly would perform the task of 'systematically disseminating these valuable productions' for those readers willing and ...
... authorities upon the subjects which they treat.' Hence his firm belief that publications such as Popular Science Monthly would perform the task of 'systematically disseminating these valuable productions' for those readers willing and ...
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... authority but, crucially, its very legitimacy as well. It is Broks's view that we need to move beyond the usual top-down models of expertise so as to better theorize how popular science can be recognized as a 'conceptual space' for the ...
... authority but, crucially, its very legitimacy as well. It is Broks's view that we need to move beyond the usual top-down models of expertise so as to better theorize how popular science can be recognized as a 'conceptual space' for the ...
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... authority of science and raised fears of an anti-science movement. Drawing on that history, the next two chapters ... authorities of church and government, and how a frightened middle class used science in a vain effort to instil their ...
... authority of science and raised fears of an anti-science movement. Drawing on that history, the next two chapters ... authorities of church and government, and how a frightened middle class used science in a vain effort to instil their ...
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... authority (setting themselves apart from the public) with a need for legitimation (through an appeal to the public). The chapter argues that it is in the domain of popular science that this delicate balancing act is carried out. In ...
... authority (setting themselves apart from the public) with a need for legitimation (through an appeal to the public). The chapter argues that it is in the domain of popular science that this delicate balancing act is carried out. In ...
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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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