The Culture of Science

How the Public Relates to Science Across the Globe

• Author(s): Martin W. Bauer, Rajesh Shukla, Nick Allum,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 490
• ISBN_10: 1136701400
  ISBN_13: 9781136701405
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Science / History , Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects , Social Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , Science / Life Sciences / Biology , Science / Earth Sciences / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Juvenile Nonfiction / Science & Nature / General ,

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This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address the influence of cultural factors; the question of science and religion and its influence on particular developments (e.g. stem cell research); and the demarcation of science from non-science as well as issues including the ‘incommensurability’ versus ‘cognitive polyphasia’ and the cognitive (in)tolerance of different systems of knowledge.