The Evolution of Public Understanding of Science-Discourse and Comparative Evidence
The Evolution of Public Understanding of Science-Discourse and Comparative Evidence
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DOI：
10.1177/097172180901400202
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发表时间：
2009-07-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Bauer, Martin W.
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作者：
Bauer, Martin W.
公众对科学的理解（PUS）是一个活动领域和社会研究领域。这一领域的演变包括不断变化的话语和不断变化的公众理解的实质性证据。(1)在第一部分中，我将简要介绍PUS的话语如何从扫盲，通过PUS，到社会科学。与其说这是一个进步的故事，不如说这是一个虚假的论战和关切倍增的故事。在第二部分中，我将通过利用大众媒体数据和大规模比较调查证据来展示一些关于PUS如何变化的经验证据。最后，我强调，科学与社会的关系是可变的，无论是在科学和更广泛的社会之间的距离，并在这种关系的质量。
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.