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Desarrollo Cientifico Tecnologico Y Universidades, Jorge Gibert-Galassi
Desarrollo Cientifico Tecnologico Y Universidades, Jorge Gibert-Galassi
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The paper shows how scientific and technological activities are embodied at universities in emegent peripheric countries and regions.
La Construccion Social Del Cientifico, Jorge Gibert-Galassi
La Construccion Social Del Cientifico, Jorge Gibert-Galassi
jorge gibert-galassi
The interview-based paper describes structures and mechanisms which link market, State and the university, in order to explain, in principle, what a scientist is meant to be in Chile. By analysing four communities (astronomers, molecular biologists, sociologists, and communication scientists), it attempts to uncover the social and cultural reasons why there are these scientific communities with patent social and intellectual identity; latent but constituted identities, evolving; and communities in path-searching definable identity. Reinforcing a utilitarian historical relationship between university and society, and exacerbated by Neo-liberalism, these structures and mechanisms have been precipitated during the last 20 years. Finally, the paper …