Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture

Daniel Patrick Thurs

Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Country
United States
Published
4 August 2008
Pages
252
ISBN
9780813544205

Science Talk: Changing Notions of Science in American Culture

Daniel Patrick Thurs

Discoveries in the sciences are occurring constantly contributing to the changing definition of the term ‘science’ itself. Daniel Patrick Thurs examines what these controversies say about how we understand science now and in the future. Drawing on his analysis of magazines, newspapers, journals and other forms of public discourse, Thurs describes how science-originally used as a synonym for general knowledge-became a term to distinguish particular subjects as elite forms of study accessible only to the highly educated.

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