Sökning: "Popular science"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 573 avhandlingar innehållade orden Popular science.

1. 1. Translating Popular Education : Civil Society Cooperation between Sweden and Estonia

   Författare :Pelle Åberg; Anders Uhlin; Ulrika Mörth; Karl Magnus Johansson; Mikko Lagerspetz; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Translation; diffusion; socialization; popular education; civil society; Sweden; Estonia; transnational cooperation; democracy promotion; ABF; AHL; Political science; Statsvetenskap; Political Science; statsvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : By their very nature, attempts by civil society organizations to promote democracy abroad involve cooperation and contact across the borders of nation states. The dissemination of the ideas and practices of the promoters is often essential; in the case of Swedish democracy promotion, popular education or folkbildning has been important. LÄS MER

3. 2. Den torgförda biologin. Studier i populärvetenskapens problem och tematik : Biology in the agora. Studies on problems and themes in popular science

   Författare :Kaj Johansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; popular science; popular knowledge; popular biology; popularisation; Ludwik Fleck; history of science; history of biology; thought collective; thought style;

   Sammanfattning : The chief aim in this work is to demonstrate the fruitfulness of Ludwik Fleck’s philosophy of science for stimulating a number of new viewpoints in the study of popular science and popularisation from the vantage point of history of ideas and science. Taking its point of departure in the question, ”What is popular science?”, the present work articulates a comprehensive theoretical framework for addressing problems regarding the place of popular science and its multiple functions, as well as necessary preconditions needed for popularisation. LÄS MER

4. 3. Unleashing Science Popularisation: Studies on Science as Popular Culture

   Författare :Andreas Gunnarsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; science popularisation; popular culture; public understanding of science; science and the media;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to broaden the concept of science popularisation. It argues that the conventional view of popularisation as the public communication of appropriately simplified versions of established facts to lay audiences fails to capture the multifaceted nature of popularisation practices through which science and popular culture are recombined. LÄS MER

5. 4. Translating Popular Education : Civil Society Cooperation between Sweden and Estonia

   Författare :Pelle Åberg; Södertörns högskola; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

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7. 5. Morgondagens experter : Tekniken, ungdomen och framsteget i populärvetenskap och science fiction i Sverige under det långa 1950-talet

   Författare :Michael Godhe; Martin Kylhammar; Linköpings universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Popular science; science fiction; youth; tomorrow s expens; the idea of progress; the atomic bomb; the cold war; people s home; science fiction; ambivalence; Sweden; Populärvetenskap; science fiction; ungdomar; litteratur och teknik; teknikutveckling; framstegstanken; Sverige; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AREAS; TVÄRVETENSKAPLIGA FORSKNINGSOMRÅDEN;

   Sammanfattning : This study analyzes different views of science, technology and progress in popular science and science fiction published in Sweden during the 'long 1950s' (ca 1946-1964) and how they were related to youth. In the first part, popular technical periodicals are discussed - Teknikes Värld (Technical World) and Teknik för Alla (Technolvgy for Everyone). LÄS MER