Bankole FALADE, South Africa Research Chair in Science Communication, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Li YUH-YUH, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Carmelo POLINO , Centro Redes, Argentina; University of Oviedo, Spain, Spain
Ahmet SUERDEM, Istanbul Bilgi University , Turkey
Martin BAUER, London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
Petra PANSEGRAU , University of Bielefeld, Germany
Rajesh SHUKLA, Price, India
Science is universal, but science culture remains local. The cultural authority of science varies across countries. Within this complex of research, a perennial question concerns the relationship of general attitudes as a horizon for specific issues, often controversial at least in some world regions, such as vaccination. The Wellcome Global Monitor (WGM) offers a unique platform to assess this issue on a global scale (144 countries, n=144,000 interviews, conducted 2018). This symposium will re-examine the data using the PREK model (promise, reserve, engage and know) of science attitudes with focus on different world regions (Bauer & Suerdem, 2016 and 2019). Knowledge indicators include ‘self-confidence’ and ‘image of science’, engagement indicators are ‘information seeking’ and ‘polyphasia science & religion’; promise is assessed by utility assessments of science, and the key reserve index relates to ‘vaccination hesitancy’. The five speakers will each assess the complex of these four indicators in a world region and examine the specifics of the culture of science. Geography is not destiny, so socio-economic indicators will be coming into the frame of analysis. The symposium will be commented on by Petra Pansegrau (Uni Bielefeld) and Rajesh Shukla (Price, Delhi).
Document 1 : Document 1
Document 2 : Symposium abstracts