The Research Of Public Scientific Literacy Under The Vision Of Social Role Theory

Using the date of a survey about 3981 questionnaires in 7 cities, and based on social role theory, the paper analyses the relation between roles and scientific literacy and its various dimensions.After the analysis it was found that gender, age and hometown of people's ascribed role have a small impact on public scientific literacy. At the same time, it was also found that both the level of education and the occupation have a great impact on the public scientific literacy. The relation between the level of education and scientific literacy and it's five aspects is the most importance.I think that an important reason leading to the different roles having different levels of scientific literacy is the different role expectations of the different roles, and needing to learn is the reason of acquired role have greater impact on scientific literacy.Through social role theoretical vision China's urban public scientific literacy analysis of social role theoretical vision this paper provides a new perspective understand the relation between social role and scientific literacy and enriches the results of studying public scientific literacy.