Gauhar Raza
Biographic Data
| ID | 6003375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gauhar Raza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gauhar |
| FAMILY NAME | Raza |
| SIGNATURE | RAZA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Science Communication Practice in China
Indigenous culture as a knowledge system
Complex concepts such as cultural identity, gender issues and the effects of colonialism, politics, and power structures on societies form part of the debate around indigenous culture as a knowledge system. This article makes a contribution to the debate by addressing cultural issues encountered during a cross-cultural research project based in India and South Africa. The authors reflected on some of the conceptual issues they grappled with durin…
Relative Cultural Distance and Public Understanding of Science
Public Understanding of Science is an area constituted by those scholars who essentially acquired expertise in various established academic disciplines and shifted their attention towards a few specific issues related to the science–society interface. The discipline though recognised as a legitimate area of research has not come out of all its teething problems associated with the formation of any new area. The mainstay, during the first phase of…
Public, Science, and Cultural Distance
This article attempts to define cultural distance and proposes a method to empirically measure it. Using the survey data on perceptions of common citizens, the authors measure this distance in this article by the number of years spent in formal schooling. Cultural distances based on people's explanations of various natural phenomena have been mapped to demonstrate efficacy of the proposed method. The authors argue that the determinants of the mag…
Kaleidoscoping public understanding of science on hygiene, health and plague
In September 1994 a plague epidemic hit a number of cities in India. Though the spread of the disease was controlled within a short period of about one month, its influences on various channels of information, on the functioning of government departments (especially health and sanitation), on the scientific community and on people's scientific information level were remarkable. This paper analyses the responses of 1127 individuals interviewed in …
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Kaleidoscoping public understanding of science on hygiene, health and plague
In September 1994 a plague epidemic hit a number of cities in India. Though the spread of the disease was controlled within a short period of about one month, its influences on various channels of information, on the functioning of government departments (especially health and sanitation), on the scientific community and on people's scientific information level were remarkable. This paper analyses the responses of 1127 individuals interviewed in …
Public, Science, and Cultural Distance
This article attempts to define cultural distance and proposes a method to empirically measure it. Using the survey data on perceptions of common citizens, the authors measure this distance in this article by the number of years spent in formal schooling. Cultural distances based on people's explanations of various natural phenomena have been mapped to demonstrate efficacy of the proposed method. The authors argue that the determinants of the mag…
Relative Cultural Distance and Public Understanding of Science
Public Understanding of Science is an area constituted by those scholars who essentially acquired expertise in various established academic disciplines and shifted their attention towards a few specific issues related to the science–society interface. The discipline though recognised as a legitimate area of research has not come out of all its teething problems associated with the formation of any new area. The mainstay, during the first phase of…
Indigenous culture as a knowledge system
Complex concepts such as cultural identity, gender issues and the effects of colonialism, politics, and power structures on societies form part of the debate around indigenous culture as a knowledge system. This article makes a contribution to the debate by addressing cultural issues encountered during a cross-cultural research project based in India and South Africa. The authors reflected on some of the conceptual issues they grappled with durin…
Science Communication Practice in China
Sociology (4 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Animal and Plant Science Education (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work)