Bauer, Martin W. (2009) The evolution of public understanding of science - discourse and comparative evidence. Science, Technology and Society, 14 (2). pp. 221-240. ISSN 0971-7218
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Abstract
Public Understanding of Science (PUS) is a field of activity and an area of social research. The evolution of this field comprises both the changing discourse and the substantive evidence of a changing public understanding.1 In the first part, I will present a short account on how the discourse of PUS moved from Literacy, via PUS, to Science-in-Society. This is less a story of progress, but one of false polemics and the multiplication of concerns. In the second part, I will show some empirical evidence on how PUS has changed by drawing on mass media data and large scale comparative survey evidence. I conclude by stressing that the Science-Society relationship is variable both in distance between science and the wider society and in the quality of this relationship.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://sts.sagepub.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2009 SAGE Publications |
| Divisions: | Methodology Psychological and Behavioural Science |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Nov 2009 20:36 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 23:29 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/25640 |
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