Science Technology and Society · 2009 · 267 citations · 7 references
Social SciencesCommunicationSociologyPublic OpinionScience CommunicationScientific LiteracyPublic DiscoursePublic Perceptions Of SciencePublic Understanding Of ScienceRhetoric Of ScienceScience-technology-society RelationshipsScientific KnowledgeMedia Coverage Of ScienceMedia Representation Of SciencePublic Attitudes Toward SciencePublic Communication Of SciencePublic Dialogue About ScienceScientific DiscourseSocial Epistemology Of ScienceSurvey Evidence Methodology
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.
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Daedalus, or Science and the Future.
A. B., J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell et al. · The Journal of Philosophy · 1926 · 201 citations