Evolutionary psychology as public science and boundary work
Evolutionary psychology as public science and boundary work
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DOI：
10.1177/0963662506059260
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发表时间：
2006-04-01
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4.1
通讯作者：
Cassidy, A
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作者：
Cassidy, A
本文以20世纪90年代英国流行的进化心理学为例，探讨了公共科学辩论的现象，即科学争议在大众媒体等公共论坛上进行辩论。早期对英国媒体对这一主题的报道的定量分析（Cassidy，2005）表明，与进化心理学相关的学者在当时的媒体上异常活跃，特别是与出版关于这一主题的科普书籍有关。Turner、Gieryn和Bucchi之前的研究已经建立了这种对公共领域的诉求与建立科学合法性和学术学科边界之间的关系。在这项工作之后，我在这里认为，在这种情况下，大众科学为科学家提供了一个创造性的空间，超出了普通学术话语的限制，使他们能够跨越科学的界限，以声称在人类研究方面的专业知识。
This paper explores the phenomena of public scientific debates, where scientific controversies are argued out in public fora such as the mass media, using the case of popular evolutionary psychology in the UK of the 1990s. An earlier quantitative analysis of the UK press coverage of the subject (Cassidy, 2005) suggested that academics associated with evolutionary psychology had been unusually active in the media at that time, particularly in association with the publication of popular science books on the subject. Previous research by Turner, by Gieryn, and by Bucchi has established the relationship between such appeals to the public domain and the establishment of scientific legitimacy and academic disciplinary boundaries. Following this work, I argue here that popular science has, in this case, provided a creative space for scientists, outside of the constraints of ordinary academic discourse, allowing them to reach across scientific boundaries in order to claim expertise in the study of human beings.