Public perspective towards social impact of Chang E lunar probe program

Haijie Yin () and Hou Bowen ()
Additional contact information
Haijie Yin: School of Sociology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Hou Bowen: School of Sociology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies, 2014, vol. 10, issue 10, 29-49

Abstract: TDuring the past decades, assessing the impact of technological project and related engineering has long been paid attention. The objective of this research is to investigate technological project and related engineering’s social impact through public perspective. The present article investigated the social impact of China’s Chang E Lunar Probe project by using Social Impact Assessment (SIA) methods, resulting from a research study conducted in 2012. SIA is a collective of the systematic methods used to investigate the influence of engineering, project or policy and to present their potential social impacts. A survey from public respondents indicated that public spoke highly of Chang E Probe on the whole. Furthermore, a factor analysis of the perspective of public perspective towards Chang E Lunar Probe project has discovered such impact were mainly assessed in four dimensions by public, these impacts were military impact, political impact, public support and educational impact. From the results obtained so far, it revealed that public perspective towards the political impact of the Chang E Probe varies from each other but unified when they assess Chang E’s military impact, meanwhile student’s perspective towards the educational impact of Chang E Probe was largely different from other publics.

Keywords: Chang E Lunar Probe Engineering; Social Impact Assessment; Public perspective; China; Research and Development; Military research; Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 O32 O38 P30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/15834 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ieu:journl:v:10:y:2014:i:10:p:29-49

Access Statistics for this article

Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies is currently edited by IET

More articles in Enterprise and Work Innovation Studies from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, IET/CICS.NOVA-Interdisciplinary Centre on Social Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by António Brandão Moniz ().