| 書(shū)目名稱(chēng) | Expository Science: Forms and Functions of Popularisation |
| 編輯 | Terry Shinn,Richard D. Whitley |
| 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/320/319759/319759.mp4 |
| 叢書(shū)名稱(chēng) | Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook |
| 圖書(shū)封面 |  |
| 描述 | The prevailing view of scientific popularization, both within academic circles and beyond, affirms that its objectives and procedures are unrelated to tasks of cognitive development and that its pertinence is by and large restricted to the lay public. Consistent with this view, popularization is frequently portrayed as a logical and hence inescapable consequence of a culture dominated by science-based products and procedures and by a scientistic ideology. On another level, it is depicted as a quasi-political device for chan- nelling the energies of the general public along predetermined paths; examples of this are the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution and the U. S. -Soviet space race. Alternatively, scientific popularization is described as a carefully contrived plan which enables scientists or their spokesmen to allege that scientific learn- ing is equitably shared by scientists and non-scientists alike. This manoeuvre is intended to weaken the claims of anti-scientific protesters that scientists monopolize knowledge as a means of sustaining their social privileges. Pop- ularization is also sometimes presented as a psychological crutch. This, in an era of increasing scienti |
| 出版日期 | Book 1985 |
| 關(guān)鍵詞 | Evolution; communication; education; knowledge; sociology |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5239-3 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-90-277-1832-7 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-5239-3Series ISSN 0167-2320 Series E-ISSN 2215-1796 |
| issn_series | 0167-2320 |
| copyright | D. Reidel Publishing Company 1985 |
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