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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... meanings inflected in public debate. Such an approach, we soon discover, provides us with a rich array of intriguing – and unexpected – insights. The Issues in Cultural and Media Studies series aims to facilitate a diverse range of ...
... meanings inflected in public debate. Such an approach, we soon discover, provides us with a rich array of intriguing – and unexpected – insights. The Issues in Cultural and Media Studies series aims to facilitate a diverse range of ...
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... meanings of popular science were fiercely contested. Focusing on the first half of the nineteenth century, it shows how radical artisans were using science as a weapon against the estab— lished authorities of church and government, and ...
... meanings of popular science were fiercely contested. Focusing on the first half of the nineteenth century, it shows how radical artisans were using science as a weapon against the estab— lished authorities of church and government, and ...
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... meaning of science openly contested. Public attitudes towards science appear deeply contradictory: rejoicing in the role that science had played in winning the war, but still coming to terms with the new atomic nightmare; enjoying a ...
... meaning of science openly contested. Public attitudes towards science appear deeply contradictory: rejoicing in the role that science had played in winning the war, but still coming to terms with the new atomic nightmare; enjoying a ...
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... meaning construction as the essential feature of developing a new Critical Understanding of Science in Public (CUSP) ... meanings within popular science. In taking seriously the spatial imagery that is often employed in discussing ideas ...
... meaning construction as the essential feature of developing a new Critical Understanding of Science in Public (CUSP) ... meanings within popular science. In taking seriously the spatial imagery that is often employed in discussing ideas ...
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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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