Transgenic have been often pointed out as an example whenever the relation between science, technology and society is discussed. Many countries, including Brazil, have bet on the activity of scientific diffusion in order to help rethinking this relation. The theory of social representations belongs to a tradition that studies scientific diffusion since the sixties of the twentieth century. The present research's goal was to verify the impact of a scientific exhibition about transgenic on the social representations of this object among high school students from Florianopolis. The results show that scientific exhibition can help forming representations that are useful in the reflection process about the relation between science and society.
social representations; transgenic; scientific exhibition
