Attitudes towards genetic engineering between change and stability: Results of a panel study
Year: 2000
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Genetic engineering is not only a new modern technology but it is also a social object of technological assessment research. Genetic engineering is associated with moral and ethical concerns in society, political decisions, ecological impacts, and economics. These impacts are the foundation for the social linkages of genetic engineering. For that social linkages and cognitive association we have chosen the theory of social representation of technology as a framework for analysing attitudes towards genetic engineering. We present the results about the perception of genetic engineering for lay people and discourse actors on three levels of applications: genetic engineering in general, four sectors (human genertics, farm animal genetics, microbe genetics and crop plants genetics) and several specific applications in health, medicines, protection of the environment, agriculture and laboratory research. The panel design allowed us to analyse the constancy and change of attitudes. We also looked for a correlation with individual value-orientation such as religion, political orientation, risk perception, and evaluation of technology.
Source: New Genetics and Society
DOI: 10.1080/713687611
Authors: Dieter Urban, Uwe Pfenning
Language: English
Subfield: Plant Science
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2016300872