| Revista: | Revista Brasileira de História da Ciência |
| Base de datos: | |
| Número de sistema: | 000552153 |
| ISSN: | 2176-3275 |
| Autores: | , |
| Año: | 2012 |
| Volumen: | 5 |
| Número: | 2 |
| Paginación: | 224-231 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Idioma: | Portugués |
| Resumen en inglés | This article discusses the ways the hegemonic ideology is further consolidated through the popularization of science. The issues surrounding science popularization are intimately linked with the utopias such popularizations construct, the ideology they propagate, and in the case of molecular biology, with the issue of reductionism which appears to be so prevalent in the popular accounts of molecular biology. In such a context, reductionism is no longer a philosophical issue, but a political issue. The article, also, attempts to bring forth the differences between the rather prevalent notion of European Science and that of Science in Europe. |
| Resumen en portugués | This article discusses the ways the hegemonic ideology is further consolidated through the popu-larization of science. The issues surrounding science popularization are intimately linked with the utopias such popularizations construct, the ideology they propagate, and in the case of molecular biology, with the issue of reductionism which appears to be so prevalent in the popular accounts of molecular biology. In such a context, reductionism is no longer a philosophical issue, but a political issue. The article, also, attempts to bring forth the differences between the rather prevalent notion of European Science and that of Science in Europe. |
| Keyword: | popularisation, ideology, History of Science |
| Texto completo: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
