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Scientists and the Public
ISBN-13: 9783836487740 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 300 str.
This qualitative study draws on and extends two important concepts of the public understanding of science literature: scientists' understandings of 'the public', and the currently popular notion of science-public dialogue. Using data from interviews with scientists and engineers, the 'understanding of the public by scientists' is examined. Constructions of publics are also an emphasis in a detailed case study of informal science-public dialogue at the Dana Centre, London. Here structures of power and authority are more traditional than the dialogue movement's rhetoric would suggest, but there is also continual resistance to and contestation of these structures. To conclude, the threads of analysis are drawn together to provide a theoretical reasoning of, and model for, informal dialogue processes which are able to utilise the sociological complexity of scientists' talk.
This qualitative study draws on and extends twoimportant concepts of the public understanding ofscience literature: scientists understandings ofthe public, and the currently popular notion ofscience-public dialogue. Using data from interviewswith scientists and engineers, the understanding ofthe public by scientists is examined. Constructionsof publics are also an emphasis in a detailed casestudy of informal science-public dialogue at the DanaCentre, London. Here structures of power andauthority are more traditional than the dialoguemovements rhetoric would suggest, but there is alsocontinual resistance to and contestation of thesestructures. To conclude, the threads of analysis aredrawn together to provide a theoretical reasoning of,and model for, informal dialogue processes which areable to utilise the sociological complexity ofscientists talk.
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