Prpić, Katarina (2011) Science, the public, and social elites: how the general public, scientists, top politicians and managers perceive science. Public understanding of science, 20 (6). pp. 733-750. ISSN 0963-6625 (Print), 1361-6609 (Online)
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This paper finds that the Croatian public’s and the social elites’ perceptions of science are a mixture of scientific and technological optimism, of the tendency to absolve science of social responsibility, of skepticism about the social effects of science, and of cognitive optimism and skepticism. However, perceptions differ significantly according to the different social roles and the wider value system of the observed groups.The survey data show some key similarities, as well as certain specificities in the configuration of the types of views of the four groups – the public, scientists, politicians and managers. The results suggest that the well-known typology of the four cultures reveals some of the ideologies of the key actors of scientific and technological policy. The greatest social, primarily educational and socio-spatial, differentiation of the perceptions of science was found in the general public.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Language: English. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | General public, managers, politicians, science perceptions, scientists, social and cognitive dimensions of science, social elites |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Depositing User: | Karolina Vranješ |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Feb 2015 14:25 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2015 12:16 |
| URI: | http://idiprints.knjiznica.idi.hr/id/eprint/85 |
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