Locating Scientific Citizenship: The Institutional Contexts and Cultures of Public Engagement
Locating Scientific Citizenship: The Institutional Contexts and Cultures of Public Engagement
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DOI：
10.1177/0162243909345835
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发表时间：
2010-07-01
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Pidgeon, Nick
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作者：
Bickerstaff, Karen;Lorenzoni, Irene;Pidgeon, Nick
在这篇文章中，我们探讨了公众参与科学和技术问题的制度谈判。我们以英国皇家学会发起的“社会中的科学”对话项目为例，但将这一案例置于一系列慈善机构、公司、政府部门和科学机构的公众参与活动的更广泛经验中。分析的新奇在于将对话活动及其结果与委托组织的价值观、实践和必要的制度合理性联系起来。我们认为，往往是心照不宣的制度建设的科学公民是一个关键的，相对不发达的，分析的一个因素，提供了相当深入的实践和民主的影响，参与公众在科学和科学政策。我们还提出的证据表明，随着时间的推移，不断扩大的“能力”与对话可以在微妙的方式注册的其他元素的制度架构到更反射的思维和行动模式。在文章的最后一节，我们认为研究和实践可以（我们认为应该）更直接地参与机构背景和文化的各个方面的方式。
In this article, we explore the institutional negotiation of public engagement in matters of science and technology. We take the example of the Science in Society dialogue program initiated by the UK's Royal Society, but set this case within the wider experience of the public engagement activities of a range of charities, corporations, governmental departments, and scientific institutions. The novelty of the analysis lies in the linking of an account of the dialogue event and its outcomes to the values, practices, and imperatives the institutional rationality of the commissioning organization. We argue that the often tacit institutional construction of scientific citizenship is a critical, and relatively undeveloped, element of analysis-one that offers considerable insight into the practice and democratic implications of engaging publics in science and science policy. We also present evidence indicating that over time the expanding "capacities" associated with dialogue can act in subtle ways to enroll other elements of institutional architectures into more reflexive modes of thinking and acting. In the concluding section of the article, we consider the ways in which research and practice could (and we believe should) engage more squarely with facets of institutional context and culture.