De Witt Annick, Osseweijer Patricia, Pierce Robin
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.
Public Underst Sci. 2017 Jan;26(1):70-88. doi: 10.1177/0963662515592364. Epub 2016 Aug 3.
Biotechnological innovations prompt a range of societal responses that demand understanding. Research has shown such responses are shaped by individuals' cultural worldviews. We aim to demonstrate how the Integrative Worldview Framework (IWF) can be used for analyzing perceptions of biotechnology, by reviewing (1) research on public perceptions of biotechnology and (2) analyses of the stakeholder-debate on the bio-based economy, using the Integrative Worldview Framework (IWF) as analytical lens. This framework operationalizes the concept of worldview and distinguishes between traditional, modern, and postmodern worldviews, among others. Applied to these literatures, this framework illuminates how these worldviews underlie major societal responses, thereby providing a unifying understanding of the literature on perceptions of biotechnology. We conclude the IWF has relevance for informing research on perceptions of socio-technical changes, generating insight into the paradigmatic gaps in social science, and facilitating reflexive and inclusive policy-making and debates on these timely issues.
生物技术创新引发了一系列需要理解的社会反应。研究表明，这些反应受到个人文化世界观的影响。我们旨在通过回顾（1）关于公众对生物技术看法的研究，以及（2）使用综合世界观框架（IWF）作为分析视角对生物经济利益相关者辩论的分析，来展示综合世界观框架（IWF）如何用于分析对生物技术的认知。该框架将世界观的概念具体化，并区分了传统、现代和后现代世界观等。应用于这些文献时，该框架阐明了这些世界观如何构成主要社会反应的基础，从而为有关生物技术认知的文献提供了统一的理解。我们得出结论，IWF有助于为社会技术变革认知的研究提供信息，深入了解社会科学中的范式差距，并促进关于这些紧迫问题的反思性和包容性政策制定及辩论。
