Abstract
The report starts out with characterizing the 'climate of acceptance'. After a discussion of the results of surveys on public opinion and attitude, programmes and strategies of some actors in the field of technology policy are introduced; the role of the education system and the influence of the mass media are examined briefly in this context. Further, the paper deals with the development of the problem of acceptance in the course of the past two decades. The debates on nuclear energy and the introduction of new information technologies are analysed with an eye to structural differences. Finally the report turns to some considerations on the role of the acceptance issue in the context of structural problems in society. In an annex it is attempted both to obtain an overview of the various meanings of the term 'acceptance' and to summarise tendencies of social science research on acceptance. (orig./HSCH).
Citation Formats
Petermann, T, Thurn, G, Williams, R, and Mills, S.
Polarisation and consensus: Public acceptance of new technologies in the Federal Republic of Germany. Final version.
Germany: N. p.,
1985.
Web.
Petermann, T, Thurn, G, Williams, R, & Mills, S.
Polarisation and consensus: Public acceptance of new technologies in the Federal Republic of Germany. Final version.
Germany.
Petermann, T, Thurn, G, Williams, R, and Mills, S.
1985.
"Polarisation and consensus: Public acceptance of new technologies in the Federal Republic of Germany. Final version."
Germany.
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title = {Polarisation and consensus: Public acceptance of new technologies in the Federal Republic of Germany. Final version}
author = {Petermann, T, Thurn, G, Williams, R, and Mills, S}
abstractNote = {The report starts out with characterizing the 'climate of acceptance'. After a discussion of the results of surveys on public opinion and attitude, programmes and strategies of some actors in the field of technology policy are introduced; the role of the education system and the influence of the mass media are examined briefly in this context. Further, the paper deals with the development of the problem of acceptance in the course of the past two decades. The debates on nuclear energy and the introduction of new information technologies are analysed with an eye to structural differences. Finally the report turns to some considerations on the role of the acceptance issue in the context of structural problems in society. In an annex it is attempted both to obtain an overview of the various meanings of the term 'acceptance' and to summarise tendencies of social science research on acceptance. (orig./HSCH).}
place = {Germany}
year = {1985}
month = {Jan}
}
title = {Polarisation and consensus: Public acceptance of new technologies in the Federal Republic of Germany. Final version}
author = {Petermann, T, Thurn, G, Williams, R, and Mills, S}
abstractNote = {The report starts out with characterizing the 'climate of acceptance'. After a discussion of the results of surveys on public opinion and attitude, programmes and strategies of some actors in the field of technology policy are introduced; the role of the education system and the influence of the mass media are examined briefly in this context. Further, the paper deals with the development of the problem of acceptance in the course of the past two decades. The debates on nuclear energy and the introduction of new information technologies are analysed with an eye to structural differences. Finally the report turns to some considerations on the role of the acceptance issue in the context of structural problems in society. In an annex it is attempted both to obtain an overview of the various meanings of the term 'acceptance' and to summarise tendencies of social science research on acceptance. (orig./HSCH).}
place = {Germany}
year = {1985}
month = {Jan}
}