This book positions imagination as a central concept which increases the understanding of
daily life, personal life choices, and the way in which culture and society changes. Case …

Монография освещает историю и развитие концепции социальных представлений,
обобщает результаты многолетней работы автора. Большое внимание уделяется …

It is a common sense view widely held by European elites that languages are organised
systems with centrally defined norms, each language ideally expressing the spirit of a nation …

This paper argues that our understanding of how the public understands science is
incomplete as long as we do not answer the question of why, under which conditions, and in …

Die hier vorgelegte Studie ist aus einem vom Bundesministerium fiir Bildung und Forschung
im Rahmen des Programms „Forschung zu den ethischen, rechtlichen und sozialen Aspekte …

Making sense of new technologies and their associated risks entails lay people in utilizing
various modes of reasoning and making use of a range of interpretative resources at hand to …

" Atom,"" byte" and" gene" are metonymies for techno-scientific developments of the 20th
century: nuclear power, computing and genetic engineering. Resistance continues to …

We examine international public opinion towards stem-cell research during the period when
the issue was at its most contentious. We draw upon representative sample surveys in …

The range of social and ethical concerns that have been raised in connection with food and
agricultural biotechnology is exceedingly broad. Many of these deal with risks and possible …

The essay compares German and Irish media coverage of human genome research in the
year 2000, using qualitative and quantitative frame analysis of a print media corpus …