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Objective. The goal of this article is to map out attitudes toward animal experimentation in Switzerland, more specifically, to document the current attitudes, analyze the change of attitudes over the last 10 years, and explain these attitudes.Methods. This study analyzes a series of Swiss surveys that measure public attitudes toward the environment and science (ISSP, 1994, 2000; EB, 2001, 2005).Results. It is shown that the relative majority of Swiss are against animal research in 2005 and that refusals are increasing since 1994. Attitudes toward animal testing are explained by attitudes toward science, attitudes toward nature, and values.Conclusions. The study of attitudes toward animal experimentation makes important contributions to sociology and, in particular, to the public understanding of science (PUS) research.

Explores the correlation between citizens' attitudes toward science and their confidence in political institutions in Switzerland; based on the results of the 2001 Eurobarometer. Summaries in English and German.

Introduction: How the Sociology of Science and Technology Addresses Science and Society Relations (Ana Delicado) -- Part I: Scientists' Research Practices and Responses to Societal Demands -- Norms, Competition, and Visibility in Contemporary Science: The Legacy of Robert K. Merton ( Massimiano Bucchi) -- Re-distributing Responsibility in Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production and Circulation (Thomas Völker) -- How Do Scientists Doing Animal Experimentation View the Co-evolution Between Science and Society? The Swiss Case (Fabienne Crettaz Von Roten) -- Science-Society Relations in a Context of Technological Change: How Scientists Working on Renewable Energy Technologies Perceive Their Role in the Energy Transition (Luís Junqueira) -- Part II: Science Communication and Citizen Participation in Science -- Bringing Science to Public: Is it a Matter for Scientific Associations? (Cristina Palma Conceição) -- Turning the Gaze on Ourselves: Public Communication of Sociology (Ana Delicado) -- Technologies of Participation in Water Plans in Portugal: What kind of Science–Society Relation Are We Talking About? (Sofia Bento & Oriana Rainho Brás) -- Material Trajectories: How issues Come to Matter in a Citizen Conference (Guillem Palà & Miquel Domènech) -- Two Turtles: Children and Autonomy in Participatory Technological Design (Núria Vallès-Peris & Miquel Domènech).

"Die vorliegende Research Note untersucht, ob die Haltung der Schweizer Bürger gegenüber der Wissenschaft mit ihrem Vertrauen in die Schweizer Institutionen, insbesondere in politische Institutionen, zusammenhängt. Auf der Grundlage von Umfragedaten (Eurobarometer 2001) zeigen wir, dass die Haltung gegenüber der Wissenschaft gemäßigt mit einem solchen Vertrauen zusammenhängt, die Anzahl der signifikanten Beziehungen jeder Institution vom Vertrauensgrad in die Institution abhängt und schließlich dass man lineare und nicht-lineare, umgekehrt 'U'-förmige Beziehungen unterscheiden muss." (Autorenreferat)

Since the first half of the 1980s, most Western governments have undertaken a fundamental reform of the ways in which their higher education systems are organised: financing, governance, links with politics and society. In the early 1990s, similar trends were observed in Switzerland at both federal and cantonal levels. This is the first national survey on the attitudes of the Swiss public towards science, research and higher education. The authors of the survey wanted to articulate the general issues relating to public attitudes towards science with attitudes towards university level institutions, since they are convinced that these issues form a whole, and that the relations between universities and politics are, at least in part, defined by the legitimacy of science in society.