Between Citizen and Consumer: Multiplying The Meanings of The “Public Understanding of Science”  

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Michael, Mike

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 7 no. 4 (Okt. 1998), page 313-327.
Fulltext: 313PUS74.pdf (95.28KB)

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This paper explores how the “public understanding of science” might be reconceptualized in light of the recent sociological treatments of consumption. I consider the implications that the rise of consumer culture and the increasing aesthetisization of everyday life have for microand macro-sociological studies in the public understanding of science. In particular, I examine how consumer culture impacts upon the status of the “lay local” and the nature of citizenship as they relate to the public understanding of science and scientific literacy. Further, I explore how the discourses and techniques of public understanding of science studies might contribute to the formulation of the lay person as consumer. Finally, in light of these points, I formulate a number of research questions that might enable the development of the “public understanding of science.”

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