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Expository Science: Forms and Functions of Popularisation (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
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Expository Science: Forms and Functions of Popularisation (Hardcover, 1985 ed.)
Series: Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, 9
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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 scientific
specialisation, permits the researchers involved to believe that by
transcending the boundaries of their narrow fields, their
endeavours assume a degree of general cognitive importance and even
extra scientific relevance. Regardless of the particular thrust of
these different analyses it is important to point out that all are
predicated on the tacit presupposition that scientific
popularization belongs essentially to the realm of non-science, or
only concerns the periphery of scientific activity."
General
Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Country of origin: |
Netherlands |
Series: |
Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, 9 |
Release date: |
June 1985 |
First published: |
June 1985 |
Editors: |
T. Shinn
• Richard P. Whitley
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Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
294 |
Edition: |
1985 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-90-277-1831-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
General
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LSN: |
90-277-1831-8 |
Barcode: |
9789027718310 |
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