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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... modern Popularization The popularization of scientific values The public image of science (ONSUMING OOUBES Nuclear reactions? iX Xi 12 17 26 27 33 38 44 50 51 58 63 68 73 74 Cultural challenges The popular science boom HIIRAIY AND ...
... modern Popularization The popularization of scientific values The public image of science (ONSUMING OOUBES Nuclear reactions? iX Xi 12 17 26 27 33 38 44 50 51 58 63 68 73 74 Cultural challenges The popular science boom HIIRAIY AND ...
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... of precisely these sorts of tensions. The discussion begins with the premise that while science is a defining feature of the modern world, it is through what we have come to call 'popular science' that most of us Foreword.
... of precisely these sorts of tensions. The discussion begins with the premise that while science is a defining feature of the modern world, it is through what we have come to call 'popular science' that most of us Foreword.
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... modern world. Popular science is where most of us make sense of that fact and this book tries to make sense of popular science. However, part of the aim of the book is to show how that opening sentence may not be as simple as it first ...
... modern world. Popular science is where most of us make sense of that fact and this book tries to make sense of popular science. However, part of the aim of the book is to show how that opening sentence may not be as simple as it first ...
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... modern age and how technological utopianism fostered a wide— spread belief in future progress. Moreover, the belief in progress seemed justified by evolutionary theory, and the chapter concludes with an examination of popular responses ...
... modern age and how technological utopianism fostered a wide— spread belief in future progress. Moreover, the belief in progress seemed justified by evolutionary theory, and the chapter concludes with an examination of popular responses ...
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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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