From: natashavita@earthlink.net
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 10:24:59 MST
From: Anders Sandberg
Mike Lorrey wrote:
> This term, I am taking a sociology course that is part of the core
> curriculum at my college. Part of the course is to actually create a
> sociology project and complete it. I have decided to do a study of the
> relationship, if any, between relative knowledge/understanding of
> science and technology and fear of them. I think that the results of
> this study might be helpful to Pro-Act and other technophilic groups to
> further our agenda.
...
One factor at least in Sweden has been that the resistance is focussed
on two core groups, the "blue" christian-conservative resistance or
rural, less educated people and the "green" risk/environment
resistance concentrated in cities with younger and more educated
members. Finding out whether these groups/resistance patterns exist
generally would be worthwhile. Hence it would be a good idea to
include questions about education level, religious affiliation,
location etc. The survey mentioned above has some good questions
that can be borrowed (it is not stealing if you cite the source :-)
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Take a look at the latest issue of Wired. "Science + Religion" is featured.
As an aside, Mike, if you would like to use any of the information I
gathered for my talk at Extro-5 on Pro-Act, please feel free.
Best,
Natasha
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