P Weingart
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 10275 |
|---|---|
| NOME | P Weingart |
| PRENOMES | P |
| SOBRENOME | Weingart |
| ASSINATURA | WEINGART P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Bielefeld University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8275-525X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 92 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 68 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Science communication as a wicked problem
This article explores the persistent troubles in the relation of science and its publics through a sociological lens. It conceptualises science communication as a wicked problem, a systemic challenge involving boundary negotiations across differentiated social worlds. We then examine how actors themselves interpret this wicked situation. We find that multiple paradigms of deficits, that is, master discourses of narrating this wickedness as crises…
Dynamics of trust in science among digitised publics
This project contains materials necessary to reproduce the analyses conducted for the article “Dynamics of trust in science among digitised publics: A two-wave panel study identifying trust groups ”, published in the Journal of Trust Research (doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/21515581.2025.2600301)
The Changed Publishing Culture of Science
This article addresses the question of whether the ‘freedom of science’ (or ‘academic freedom’) is affected by the various measures of evaluation and performance measurement that have been introduced into research and higher education. The assumption is that the political, economic and technical changes that have taken place over the last three quarters of a century have had profound effects on the communication of science in general and on scien…
The Public Trust in Science Scale
We developed and validated the Public Trust in Science (PuTruS) Scale to recognize the multidimensional nature of the concept. Drawing on an epistemic understanding of trust in science as a perception, we integrate prior research on different levels of trust objects, emphasizing the importance of trust in scientists. In addition, we include transparency and dialogue orientation to reflect increased public engagement expectations. Data from two Ge…
Trust or attention? Medialization of science revisited
The article traces the intensifying media orientation of universities and research organizations first by referring to early diagnoses of the spread of mutual observation and attention seeking as defining societies after WWII. This development provides the background for the unlikely, yet massive turn of scientific organizations to the general public, the media and more recently social media. Details are analyzed on the interactional, organizatio…
Public engagement with science—Origins, motives and impact in academic literature and science policy
‘Public engagement with science’ has become a ‘buzzword’ reflecting a concern about the widening gap between science and society and efforts to bridge this gap. This study is a comprehensive analysis of the development of the ‘engagement’ rhetoric in the pertinent academic literature on science communication and in science policy documents. By way of a content analysis of articles published in three leading science communication journals and a se…
Citizen science in South Africa
Citizen science, and public engagement with science, has become prominent in science policy programmes. Given the expectations attached to citizen science in academic and science policy discourses, it is worthwhile to look at where the actual work is done. The case of South Africa, the study focus, is interesting because the country follows similar programmes as many developed countries, but has a socioeconomically and educationally more unequal …
“Science is Everywhere, but No One Knows It”
In science communication, a prerequisite for reaching different parts of a society is to find out how these publics experience and interpret science. Since rural South African publics are perceived to exhibit a large cultural distance to science, the present exploratory study aimed to know in more detail how rural South Africans perceive and understand science in their local and social contexts. Theoretical notions on cultural distance and the me…
Promises and reservations towards science and technology among South African publics
Against the background that surveys measuring public perceptions of science and technology are often removed from cultural contexts and do not equally represent all regions of the world, this study investigated attitudes towards science and technology among different publics of the South African population. To apply a culture-sensitive approach, theoretical considerations of cultural distance were combined with methodological considerations of se…
Wissenschaftskommunikation unter digitalen Bedingungen. Funktionen, Akteure und Probleme des Vertrauens
How Robust Is ʺsocially Robust Knowledgeʺ?
Is There a Hype Problem in Science? If So, How Is It Addressed
As scientists increasingly communicate with the public, hype (i.e., exaggerating and/or sensationalizing communication with other scientists and with public audiences) has become a matter of concern. There are many sources of hype, some of which reinforce each other—science itself, mass media science reporting, and universities engaging in public relations and self-promotion with varying degrees of legitimacy. Competition for public attention aff…
Science communication and the issue of trust
Science communication, whether internally or to the general public depends on trust, both trust in the source and trust in the medium of communication. With the new 'ecology of communication' this trust is endangered. On the one hand the very term of science communication has been captured by many different actors (e.g., governments, PR experts, universities and research institutions, science journalists, and bloggers) apart from scientists thems…
Wissenschaftssoziologie
Peer review revisited
This paper is about peer review in the German field of communication study. It focuses on the journal Studies in Communication | Media (SCM) and examines the role and function of reviews for the production of knowledge. Taking into account recent skepticism towards the peer review process, the study is based on the most important findings of the research on peer review and conceptualizes reviews as a core communication element within the field, w…
Norms in Science
Wissenschaftssoziologie
Nostalgia for the world without numbers
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 243 - 250
Minerva - 50 Years Reflecting on Science in Society
Die Wissenschaft der Öffentlichkeit und die Öffentlichkeit der Wissenschaft1
Umfragen in der Bevölkerung ergeben seit vielen Jahren immer wieder das gleiche Bild: etwa die Hälfte sind zustimmende bis enthusiastische Anhänger der Wissenschaft, die andere Hälfte ist desinteressiert bis ablehnend ihr gegenüber. Kaum eine andere Institution erfreut sich eines so großen generellen Vertrauens und stößt doch gleichzeitig auf so viel Befürchtungen, wenn es um spezifische Entdeckungen und ihre praktische Umsetzung geht. Einstein u…
Resonanz der Wissenschaft der Gesellschaft
Sterbende Wälder und versiegende Ölvorräte erzeugen nur dann gesellschaftliche Resonanz, so Luhmanns berühmt provokative Feststellung, wenn darüber kommuniziert wird (Luhmann 1986: 63). Damit wird, im Kontext von Luhmanns Kommunikationstheorie, die Differenz zwischen „purer Faktizität“ und deren jeweils (funktionssystem-)spezifischen Prozessierungen aufgemacht. Dafür spielt der Begriff der „Resonanz“ eine zentrale Rolle. Der Thematik des vorliege…
Doppel-Leben. Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss
Die Vermessung der Forschung. Theorie und Praxis der Wissenschaftsindikatoren
Wissensproduktion und soziale Struktur
Nachrichten aus der Wissensgesellschaft
From "Finalization" to "Mode 2
Discussions about "new forms of knowledge-production" refer to purportedly fundamental changes in the organization of science. A closer look reveals that these changes pertain to a particular sector of science, i.e. policy-related fields. It is suggested that a better understanding of the kind and scope of changes would be achieved by viewing them as resulting from a "scientification" of society and a correlate "politicization" of science, both o…
Perspectives in the Sociology of Science
Verwissenschaftlichung der Gesellschaft – Politisierung der Wissenschaft
Die Wissenschaftskritik richtet sich auf die Forschung selbst und wird in Form von Kontrollen institutionalisiert. Der Frage, ob sich damit ein neues Arrangement zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft ankündigt, wird anhand der Analyse zweier Prozesse nachgegangen: der Verwissenschaftlichung und damit der Delegitimierung gesellschaftlicher Werte und Institutionen und der gegenläufigen Politisierung von Wissenschaft. Die Wissenschaft scheint ethis…
Metaphors—Messengers of Meaning
Based on the idea that the central link between science and society is one established by a diffusion of knowledge, the authors present an outline of what might be called an evolutionary sociology of knowledge. The proposal is first to make use of the concept of metaphor whose characteristic features are well known within the literary realm. By introducing an unfamiliar analogy into a new context, both the metaphorical concept and the context cha…
Commentary
Society has become an experimentation field for complex technologies. Nuclear power plants are being sold as well-developed products by industry, they are legitimated as necessary for the future provision of energy by political agencies, and scientifically they are supported by seemingly objective and neutral safety studies and risk assessments. But none of the 300 existing nuclear power plants are identical and their safety cannot be tested unde…
The Public Trust in Science Scale
We developed and validated the Public Trust in Science (PuTruS) Scale to recognize the multidimensional nature of the concept. Drawing on an epistemic understanding of trust in science as a perception, we integrate prior research on different levels of trust objects, emphasizing the importance of trust in scientists. In addition, we include transparency and dialogue orientation to reflect increased public engagement expectations. Data from two Ge…
Science and Political Culture
La comparaison de l'eugenisme en Scandinavie et en Allemagne apparait adaptee a une analyse de l'interaction entre science, ideologie et politique. L'auteur tente de realiser cette analyse sur la base d'une etude anterieure et de ses propres connaissances. Son objectif est d'etablir les similitudes et les differences de l'eugenisme et de son implementation dans les systemes politiques respectifs
Nostalgia for the world without numbers
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 243 - 250
Wissenschaftssoziologie als Gesellschaftsdiagnose
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 89 - 98
The Order of Meaning
Configurations - Volume 5, Number 3, Fall 1997
Beyond Parsons? A Critique of Ralf Dahrendorf's Conflict Theory
Dahrendorf attempts to synthesize the Marxian concepts of class, class interests, and class conflict on the one hand and the methodology and the concepts of the modern theory of action, on the other, in his analysis of social conflict and change. In this, authority appears as the focus of social conflicts and plays a dual role in social structures, as both an integrative force and a source of conflict. In each social structure (“imperatively coor…
Governance of and Through Science and Numbers
German Eugenics between Science and Politics
The Social Assessment of Science, or the De-Institutionalization of the Scientific Profession
The Science of Science in China
Beyond Parsons? A Critique of Ralf Dahrendorf's Conflict Theory
Dahrendorf attempts to synthesize the Marxian concepts of class, class interests, and class conflict on the one hand and the methodology and the concepts of the modern theory of action, on the other, in his analysis of social conflict and change. In this, authority appears as the focus of social conflicts and plays a dual role in social structures, as both an integrative force and a source of conflict. In each social structure (“imperatively coor…
Resistenz und Rezeptivität der Wissenschaft – Zu den Entstehungsbedingungen neuer Disziplinen durch wissenschaftspolitische Steuerung / Resistance and receptivity of science – On the emergence of new …
Present science policy is oriented towards the „product value“ of science. It attemps to orient scientific developments toward the solution of specific politically defined problems (e.g. cancer research, fusion research). A dimensional analysis is given, by which on the level of political control objectives and of cognitive and institutional scientific structures variables are identified, which are relevant for a comparative description of the po…
La utilización de las ciencias sociales en la práctica política con especial mención al caso de la República Federal Alemana
W. Van den Daele, P. Weingart, La utilización de las ciencias sociales en la práctica política con especial mención al caso de la República Federal Alemana, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Vol. 37, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1975), pp. 149-181
The Social Production of Scientific Knowledge
Perspectives on the Emergence of Scientific Disciplines
The disciplines represented in the twelve essays which comprise this book include agricultural chemistry, thermodynamics, physical chemistry, biophysics, x-ray protein crystallography, radio-astronomy, radar meteor research, and radio-astrono- my, in this order.There is also an editorial introduction which brings together and clarifies some of the important issues in the study of scientific disciplines.The overall aim is that historians and socio…
The Social Production of Scientific Knowledge
Die gesellschaftliche Orientierung des wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts. Gernot, Böhme , Wolfgang van den Daele , Rainer Hohlfeld , Wolfgang Krohn , Wolf Schäfer , Tilman Spengler
The Dynamics of Science and Technology
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik 1901-1976 . Rolf Winau
Perspectives in the Sociology of Science
The Dynamics of Science and Technology
I Science and Technology The Conceptual Distinction Reconsidered.- Physics - Natural Science or Technology?.- Goal Direction of Scientific Research.- II The Interrelation between Science and Technology A Close-up View at Determining Factors.- Millwrights and Engineers, Science, Social Roles, and the Evolution of the Turbine in America.- Science, Technology and Economics: The Invention of Radio as a Case Study.- On the Relation between Technology …
The Science of Science in China
The Social Assessment of Science, or the De-Institutionalization of the Scientific Profession
Verwissenschaftlichung der Gesellschaft – Politisierung der Wissenschaft
Die Wissenschaftskritik richtet sich auf die Forschung selbst und wird in Form von Kontrollen institutionalisiert. Der Frage, ob sich damit ein neues Arrangement zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft ankündigt, wird anhand der Analyse zweier Prozesse nachgegangen: der Verwissenschaftlichung und damit der Delegitimierung gesellschaftlicher Werte und Institutionen und der gegenläufigen Politisierung von Wissenschaft. Die Wissenschaft scheint ethis…
Policymaking in a Nuclear Program
Between Science and Values . Loren R. Graham
Commentary
Society has become an experimentation field for complex technologies. Nuclear power plants are being sold as well-developed products by industry, they are legitimated as necessary for the future provision of energy by political agencies, and scientifically they are supported by seemingly objective and neutral safety studies and risk assessments. But none of the 300 existing nuclear power plants are identical and their safety cannot be tested unde…
Organized Technology
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
A categorial distinction has long dominated discussions about the adequate relation between the empirical analysis of science and its epistemology, between the of and the of justification. Although there are countless philosophical variations on the theme, a much more practical issue which has received attention in recent years and will concern us here is the relation of science and cultural as well as socio-political values and institutions. dis…
German Eugenics between Science and Politics
Science, Technology and the Military
NS-Pharmazie
NS-Biologie . Anne Baumer
Science Abused? Challenging a Legend
The Argument The thesis of the paper is that there is no “abuse” of science as suggested by the legend of Galileo but only a mutual opportunism characterizing the relation between science and politics. Any scientific research depends on the accessibility of its subject matter, plus material resources. The absence of internal constraints, the hunger for novelty, translate into a powerful drive to secure both. The coupling between science and polit…
Eugenics — Medical or Social Science
The Argument Eugenics is the paradigmatic case of the conflict between biology and medicine over social influence. Commenting on as essay by Debora Kamrat–Lang(1995), the paper reconstructs the historical roots of eugenics as a form of preventive medicine. A comparision between the development of some crucial aspects of eugenics between Germany and the United States reveals that the prevalence of the value placed on the individual over hereditary…
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