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Motivation – The Gender Perspective of Young People''s Images of Science, Engineering and Technology (SET)
The authors discuss individual and societal factors which influence the gender biased image of science, engineering and technology (SET) prevalent in young people. From different angles the authors investigate the consequences of this often unattractive but also partly obsolete image for gendered study and occupational choices of girls and boys. Besides peers, school and media as main influencing socialisation instances the contributions focus on young people’s selfconcept regarding the development of gendered attitudes towards SET. Further this book includes approaches and concepts of inclusion measures aiming on changing the image of SET and attracting young people, and especially girls, for these study and job fields.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
This book includes a collection of chapters that were presented at the International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (ICESD), held in Reykjavik, Iceland between 12-14 June 2017. The contributions address a wide spectrum of subjects related to wind engineering, earthquake engineering, and structural dynamics. Dynamic behavior of ultra long span bridges that are discussed in this volume represent one of the most challenging and ambitious contemporary engineering projects. Concepts, principles, and applications of earthquake engineering are presented in chapters addressing various aspects such as ground motion modelling, hazard analysis, structural analysis and identification, design and detailing of structures, risk due to non-structural components, and risk communication and mitigation. The presented chapters represent the state-of-the-art in these fields as well as the most recent developments.
The Man Who Closed the Asylums
When the wind of the 1960s blew through the world of psychiatry In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia’s own wartime experience inside a fascist gaol. Patients were frequently restrained for long periods, and therapy was largely a matter of electric and insulin shocks. The corridors stank, and for many of the interned the doors were locked for life. This was a concentration camp, not a hospital. Basaglia, the new Director, was expected to practise all the skills of oppression in which he had been schooled, but he wou...
Under the Literary Microscope
“Science in fiction,” “geek novels,” “lab-lit”—whatever one calls them, a new generation of science novels has opened a space in which the reading public can experience and think about the powers of science to illuminate nature as well as to generate and mitigate social change and risks. Under the Literary Microscope examines the implications of the discourse taking place in and around this creative space. Exploring works by authors as disparate as Barbara Kingsolver, Richard Powers, Ian McEwan, Ann Patchett, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Crichton, these essays address the economization of scientific institutions; ethics, risk, and gender disparity in scientific work; the reshap...
The Years of Alienation in Italy
The Years of Alienation in Italy offers an interdisciplinary overview of the socio-political, psychological, philosophical, and cultural meanings that the notion of alienation took on in Italy between the 1960s and the 1970s. It addresses alienation as a social condition of estrangement caused by the capitalist system, a pathological state of the mind and an ontological condition of subjectivity. Contributors to the edited volume explore the pervasive influence this multifarious concept had on literature, cinema, architecture, and photography in Italy. The collection also theoretically reassesses the notion of alienation from a novel perspective, employing Italy as a paradigmatic case study in its pioneering role in the revolution of mental health care and factory work during these two decades.
Il solito Albert e la piccola Dolly
Dopo centinaia d'anni la scienza è uscita dalla torre d'avorio ed è entrata nella società. Oggi non si fa scienza con la sola ricerca di laboratorio ma coinvolgendo diversi attori sociali. Ci sono gli scienziati, ma anche i politici, gli amministratori, gli imprenditori e la gente comune, giovani e adulti. Le loro paure, reali o percepite, possono porre un freno ai suoi sviluppi. La loro fiducia e le loro speranze la alimentano e creano un clima di aspettative che non sempre vengono soddisfatte. Nella grande narrazione della scienza, i primi attori, gli scienziati, sono di volta in volta distruttori e benefattori, santi o mostri, padri del Golem dai piedi d'argilla o di Frankestein che si rivolta e distrugge. Non di rado poi sono tanti Sisifo che ricominciano continuamente la loro impresa – e non è escluso che agli occhi di alcuni condividano con Penelope l'abitudine di disfare di notte ciò che fanno di giorno. L'immagine di chi fa la scienza, scienziati e scienziate, è plasmata dagli atteggiamenti, dalle convinzioni e dalle credenze individuali e collettive che si muovono nella società. Tutto ha inizio dai più giovani: bambini e adolescenti.
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Public Understanding of Science
An international journal of research in the public dimensions of science and technology.
