عنوان

The debate on biotechnology in Britain :

شماره

TLets312118

عنوان اصلي

The debate on biotechnology in Britain :

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Liakopolus, Miltiadis.

عنوان اصلي به قلم نويسنده ديگر

a social psychological analysis of arguments, images and public perceptions.

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2000

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)

امتياز متن

2000

متن يادداشت

Biotechnology, sometimes described as the technology of the 21St century, has generatedwidespread controversies and led to political and economic conflicts. The thesis explores thenature of the public debates on biotechnology in Britain. The theoretical perspective adoptedis based primarily on the theory of social representations complemented by the theories ofargumentation and metaphor. It promotes a new perspective to the theory of socialrepresentations by suggesting a functional equivalence between the two main processes ofrepresentation, anchoring and objectification, and those of metaphor and argumentationrespectively.The empirical part of the thesis is centred on an analysis of the debate in three social milieux,Environmentalists, Industrialists and Scientists, and is divided into three sections. The firstsection is a case study of the media coverage about the introduction of genetically modifiedsoya in the market where the main lines of argumentation in the media are analysed.Thesecond section concentrates on the broader media coverage of biotechnology for the period1974 to 1996 and analyses the main metaphors used by the media to describe biotechnologyand its applications. The third section analyses survey data from the British part of aEuropean-wide survey study on biotechnology (Eurobarometer 46.1). Here, arguments andmetaphors are revisited in relation to other important representations such as 'geneticinheritance', 'trust' and 'future expectations'.The thesis concludes with a recapitulation of the results of the argumentation, metaphor andsurvey analysis as they merge to form the dominant social representations aboutbiotechnology. The results of the thesis are also discussed in terms of the conceptualadvances and methodological improvements that arise from the research, and insights theyprovide for the future of the debate itself.

موضوع مستند نشده

Psychology

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Liakopolus, Miltiadis.

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London)

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y