Table of Contents

Introductory Essay.- Knowledge Producers and Knowledge Acquirers: Popularisation as a Relation Between Scientific Fields and Their Publics.- I Expository Contexts and Knowledge Types.- Expository Practice: Social, Cognitive and Epistemological Linkage.- Popularisation within the Sciences: The Purposes and Consequences of Inter-Specialist Communication.- Representing Geology: Textual Structures in the Pedagogical Presentation of Science.- Attuning Science to Culture: Scientific and Popular Discussion in Dutch Sociology of Education, 1960–1980.- The Reaction to Political Radicalism and the Popularisation of Political Economy in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Case of ‘Productive’ and ‘Unproductive’ Labour.- II The Scientific Appropriation of Major Publics.- Media Sensationalisation and Science: The Case of the Criminal Chromosome.- Speaking out about Competition: An Essay on The Double Helix as Popularisation.- Popularisation and Scientific Controversy: The Case of the Theory of Relativity in France.- The Cathedral of French Science: The Early Years of the Palais de la Découverte.- Spreading the Spirit of Science: Social Determinants of the Popularisation of Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany.- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Meets the Atom Bomb.- III The Social Appropriation of Science.- Industrial Science as a “Show”: A Case-Study of Georges Claude.- Popular Political Economy for the British Working Class Reader in the Nineteenth Century.- IV A Practitioner’s View of Popularisation.- Impacts of Present-Day Popularisation.