Expository Science: Forms and Functions of Popularisation

The prevailing view of scientific popularization, both within academic circles and beyond, affirms that its objectives and procedures are unrelated to tasks of cognitive development and that its pertinence is by and large restricted to the lay public. Consistent with this view, popularization is fre...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Shinn, T. (Editor), Whitley, Richard P. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1985, 1985
Edition:1st ed. 1985
Series:Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introductory Essay
  • Knowledge Producers and Knowledge Acquirers: Popularisation as a Relation Between Scientific Fields and Their Publics
  • I Expository Contexts and Knowledge Types
  • Expository Practice: Social, Cognitive and Epistemological Linkage
  • Popularisation within the Sciences: The Purposes and Consequences of Inter-Specialist Communication
  • Representing Geology: Textual Structures in the Pedagogical Presentation of Science
  • Attuning Science to Culture: Scientific and Popular Discussion in Dutch Sociology of Education, 1960–1980
  • The Reaction to Political Radicalism and the Popularisation of Political Economy in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case of ‘Productive’ and ‘Unproductive’ Labour
  • II The Scientific Appropriation of Major Publics
  • Media Sensationalisation and Science: The Case of the Criminal Chromosome
  • Speaking out about Competition: An Essay on The Double Helix as Popularisation
  • Popularisation and Scientific Controversy: The Case of the Theory of Relativity in France
  • The Cathedral of French Science: The Early Years of the Palais de la Découverte
  • Spreading the Spirit of Science: Social Determinants of the Popularisation of Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany
  • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Meets the Atom Bomb
  • III The Social Appropriation of Science
  • Industrial Science as a “Show”: A Case-Study of Georges Claude
  • Popular Political Economy for the British Working Class Reader in the Nineteenth Century
  • IV A Practitioner’s View of Popularisation
  • Impacts of Present-Day Popularisation