popularization

Of popularization we speak in general when certain issues - such. B. from culture , science , religious, social or political schools of thought - in society (the people , Latin populus , also note the French term populace , in German mob or mob ) gain recognition and approval.

This presupposes a medium that is often equated with the means of communication in everyday language .

In another context, popularizing also meant making something understandable to the people. Long before the concept of populism in politics, people spoke of popular philosophy in the sciences . From the Enlightenment in the 18th century, it used to present philosophical problems in a commonly understood form. Representatives were e.g. B. Christian Garve , Johann Jakob Engel , Johann Georg Sulzer , Thomas Abbt or Moses Mendelssohn .

See also

• popularity
• Popular scientific literature

literature

• Henning Schweer: Popularization and circulation of knowledge, science and technology in visual mass media. A fundamental historical study using the example of the collector's pictures from the Liebig Company and Stollwerck AG. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, 2010

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sylvia Paletschek: Topic: popularization of science. Historical anthropology, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2008, ISBN 3-4122-0161-8
2. ↑ Carsten Kretschmann (Ed.): Knowledge popularization: Concepts of knowledge distribution in change. Knowledge culture and social change, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-0500-4770-4
3. ^ Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition, 13th volume, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1889, p. 236
4. ↑ Jedermanns Lexikon in 10 volumes, 7th volume, Verlaganstalt Hermann Klemm A.-G., Berlin-Grunewald 1930, p. 343