David J. Hess is a professor in the Sociology Department at Vanderbilt University, Associate Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment, Director of Environmental and Sustainability Studies, and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Sociology Department. His research and teaching is on the sociology, anthropology, and policy studies of science, technology, health, and the environment. He is the recipient of the Robert K. Merton Prize, the Diana Forsythe Prize, the Star-Nelkin Prize (shared with coauthors), the William H. Wiley Distinguished Faculty Award, and the General Anthropology Division Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship. He has been a Fulbright scholar and the PI and Co-PI on grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and FIPSE.
发表于2024-11-23
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In Science in the New Age, David Hess explores ideologies of the paranormal in the United States. He offers a map of the labyrinth of views put forward by parapsychologists and skeptical debunkers, spirit channelers and crystal healers, Hollywood poltergeist scripts, and prophets of the New Age. Adopting a cultural perspective, Hess moves beyond the question of who is right or wrong to the cultural politics of how each group constructs its own boundaries of true and false knowledge.
Hess begins by looking at each group’s unique version of knowledge, science, and religion and at its story about the other groups. Comparing the various discourses, texts, writers, and groups as cultures, he shows how skeptics, parapsychologists, and New Agers may disagree vehemently with each other, but end up sharing many rhetorical strategies, metaphors, models, values, and cultural categories. Furthermore, he argues, their shared “paraculture” has a great deal in common with the larger culture of the United States. The dialogue on the paranormal, Hess concludes, has as much to do with gender, power, and cultural values as it does with spirits, extrasensory perception, and crystal healing.
用纯话语研究的方法分析了New Age、Parapsychology以及Skepticism三种不同亚文化群和美国文化传统之间的关系,对于各派主要人物的观点论战描写的较细致,提及性别、价值观对paranormal问题的影响,多次用到Gieryn关于boundary drawing的分析。“He shows how skeptics, parapsychologists, and New Agers may disagree vehemently with each other, but end up sharing many rhetorical strategies, metaphors, models, values, and cultural categories."
评分用纯话语研究的方法分析了New Age、Parapsychology以及Skepticism三种不同亚文化群和美国文化传统之间的关系,对于各派主要人物的观点论战描写的较细致,提及性别、价值观对paranormal问题的影响,多次用到Gieryn关于boundary drawing的分析。“He shows how skeptics, parapsychologists, and New Agers may disagree vehemently with each other, but end up sharing many rhetorical strategies, metaphors, models, values, and cultural categories."
评分用纯话语研究的方法分析了New Age、Parapsychology以及Skepticism三种不同亚文化群和美国文化传统之间的关系,对于各派主要人物的观点论战描写的较细致,提及性别、价值观对paranormal问题的影响,多次用到Gieryn关于boundary drawing的分析。“He shows how skeptics, parapsychologists, and New Agers may disagree vehemently with each other, but end up sharing many rhetorical strategies, metaphors, models, values, and cultural categories."
评分用纯话语研究的方法分析了New Age、Parapsychology以及Skepticism三种不同亚文化群和美国文化传统之间的关系,对于各派主要人物的观点论战描写的较细致,提及性别、价值观对paranormal问题的影响,多次用到Gieryn关于boundary drawing的分析。“He shows how skeptics, parapsychologists, and New Agers may disagree vehemently with each other, but end up sharing many rhetorical strategies, metaphors, models, values, and cultural categories."
评分用纯话语研究的方法分析了New Age、Parapsychology以及Skepticism三种不同亚文化群和美国文化传统之间的关系,对于各派主要人物的观点论战描写的较细致,提及性别、价值观对paranormal问题的影响,多次用到Gieryn关于boundary drawing的分析。“He shows how skeptics, parapsychologists, and New Agers may disagree vehemently with each other, but end up sharing many rhetorical strategies, metaphors, models, values, and cultural categories."
Science in the New Age 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书