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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... 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 IIGIIIMAIION Two Contents.
... 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 IIGIIIMAIION Two Contents.
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... science [. . .] is clearly the next great task of civilization.' The occasion for Youmans's obser— vation was the ... of science of the highest character, with the work of popular teaching, and an increasing readiness to cooperate in ...
... science [. . .] is clearly the next great task of civilization.' The occasion for Youmans's obser— vation was the ... of science of the highest character, with the work of popular teaching, and an increasing readiness to cooperate in ...
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... of science and, more particularly, the usefulness of scientists. This was the period in which scientists sought to develop their own self-identity as a group, a process through which excluding the public became a defining feature of ...
... of science and, more particularly, the usefulness of scientists. This was the period in which scientists sought to develop their own self-identity as a group, a process through which excluding the public became a defining feature of ...
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... 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 technology ...
... 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 technology ...
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... of Science in Public (CUSP). The chapter concludes with some examples of a 'CUSP' approach. • Chapter 7 suggests a new model to give a critical account of the construction, proliferation and negotiation of meanings within popular science ...
... of Science in Public (CUSP). The chapter concludes with some examples of a 'CUSP' approach. • Chapter 7 suggests a new model to give a critical account of the construction, proliferation and negotiation of meanings within popular science ...
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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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