By William Sims Bainbridge
This booklet offers the main critical and entire examine, through a long way, of yank public perceptions concerning the that means of area exploration, interpreting massive troves of questionnaire info gathered by way of many researchers and polling organisations over a span of six a long time and anchored in influential social technology theories. It does not easily record the odds who held numerous reviews, yet employs subtle statistical options to reply to profound questions and attain clean discoveries.
Both the Bush and the Obama administrations have in the reduction of seriously on primary learn in house technological know-how and engineering. knowing higher what house exploration ability for electorate can give a contribution to charting a possible yet innovative direction. because the finish of the distance Race among the united states and the USSR, social scientists have nearly thoroughly neglected area exploration as an issue for critical research and this ebook seeks to restore that sort of contribution.
The writer communicates the insights in a lucid kind, not just intelligible yet fascinating to readers from various backgrounds.
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For every 100 persons who wanted funding increased, 146 wanted it decreased, so if the American government were managed through a system of direct democracy based on public referendums about all important topics, on balance the nation’s investments in space exploration would decline. Apparently, many Americans value other things more than they do the space program, but a plurality are satisfied with current priorities. Another immediate conclusion is that space means different things to different people.
Launius 2005). In this 2005 retrospective, informed by his knowledge of public opinion research but not delving deeply into it, Launius offers six plausible meanings that the Apollo program may have had, here described in my own terms: 1. A Mythic Event Much cultural anthropology supports the idea that every functioning culture possesses myths that define the society’s values, express a fundamental conception of reality through poetic language, and assert that unified social life has transcendental meaning.
The Choate high school I attended got a phone call from the producers of the tremendously popular television quiz program, The $64,000 Question, asking for students who would become contestants to prove how excellent the American educational institution really was. I and a younger boy were sent to New York, and I am not sure how well I did on a written test about the space program, although I know I got one orbital mechanics formula wrong. But I certainly flunked the interview, in which I forcefully stated my belief that the American public educational system was indeed dreadful, and was not invited to become a contestant.