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Public Attitudes Toward Science and Technology: What Have the Surveys Told Us?
Georgine M. Pion and Mark W. Lipsey
The Public Opinion Quarterly
Vol. 45, No. 3 (Autumn, 1981), pp. 303-316
Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Association for Public Opinion Research
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2748607
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Abstract
Surveys of public attitudes toward science and technology over the last two decades show a very high level of favorable response. Public confidence in science sagged in the seventies and, though science suffered considerably less than most other major social institutions, a larger tiny minority now view it as harmful than in the fifties. The most striking aspect of public attitudes toward science, and scientists, however, is that they appear to be based on nebulous and distorted conceptions which are dominated by themes of applied technology.
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The Public Opinion Quarterly © 1981 American Association for Public Opinion Research