The social context of scientific knowledge production and the problem of demarcation

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Volonté
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Origin ◽  
Social Mechanism ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Demarcation Criteria

In this paper, I wish to face the old problem of demarcation from a new point of view. I aim at pointing out that there are distinction criteria between scientific and non-scientific knowledge. I intend to investigate whether it is possible to define demarcation criteria by studying the social dimension of science. There are social necessities, which force the scientific production of knowledge to distinguish itself from non-scientific production. Science is not what scientists freely decide it should be, but what they are compelled to acknowledge it is. The paper discusses the nature of this constraint, which has a social origin but is also capable to be reflected on the cognitive contents of science. Through a discussion of the theories of Bruno Latour and Pierre Bourdieu, attention is drawn on the cycle of credibility as the crucial social mechanism determining scientific knowledge.

scholarly journals How Does Indonesian Scientific Production on Renewable Energy Successfully Support the Policy Design? A Journey Towards Sustainable Energy Transition

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-52
Author(s):  
Iqbal Akbar ◽  
◽  
Dhandy Arisaktiwardhana ◽  
Prima Naomi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Policy ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Scientific Publication ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production

The aim to achieve the target of a 23% share of sustainable energies in the total Indonesia’s primary energy supply requires enormous amounts of works. Indonesia’s scientific knowledge production can support a successful transition to renewables. However, policy makers struggle to determine how the transition benefits from the scientific production on renewable. A bibliometric study using scientific publication data from the Web of Science (WoS) is used to probe how Indonesian scientific knowledge production can support the policy design for transition to sustainable energy. The seven focused disciplines are geothermal, solar, wind, hydro, bio, hybrid, and energy policy and economics. Based on the data from the above-listed disciplines, a deeper analysis is conducted, and implications to the policy design are constructed. The study reveals that bio energy is the focus of the research topics produced in Indonesia, followed by solar and hydro energy. Most RE research is related to the applied sciences. The innovation capability in the form of technology modifiers and technology adapters supports the transition to sustainable energy in Indonesia. The research on bio energy, however, is characterized by higher basic knowledge than research on solar and hydro energy. This suggests low barriers to the access to the resources and to the completion of bio research in Indonesia. Designing Indonesian energy policy by comprising discriminatively specific sustainable energy sources in the main policy instruments can therefore accelerate the sustainable transition and development.

scholarly journals Socio-epistemic analysis of scientific knowledge production in little science research

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Pepe
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Epistemic Practices ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Conference Papers

The processes that drive knowledge production and dissemination in scientific environments are embedded within the social, technical, cultural and epistemic practices of the constituent research communities. This article presents a methodology to unpack specific social and epistemic dimensions of scientific knowledge production using, as a case study,  the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), a National Science Foundation “little science” research center involved in theoretical and applied work in the field of wireless communication and sensor networks. By analysis of its scholarly record, I construct a social network of coauthorship, linking individuals that have coauthored scholarly artifacts (journal articles and conference papers), and an epistemic network of topic co-occurrence, linking concepts and knowledge constructs in the same scholarly artifacts. This article reports on ongoing work directed at the study of the emergence and evolution of these networks of scientific interaction. I present some preliminary results and introduce a socio-epistemic method for an historical analysis of network co-evolution. I outline a research design to support further investigations of knowledge production in scientific circles.

Resistances to scientific knowledge production of comparative measurements of dropout and completion in European higher education

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 386-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carina Carlhed
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Statistical Reasoning ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Limited Basis ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Student Completion

The article is a critical sociological analysis of current transnational practices on creating comparable measurements of dropout and completion in higher education and the consequences for the conditions of scientific knowledge production on the topic. The analysis revolves around questions of epistemological, methodological and symbolic types and, in particular, how the social processes in the creation and use of different measures offer researchers different positions in the knowledge production. Descriptions of statistics and measurements from statistics agencies in Sweden and the UK and from the OECD, EUROSTAT and Eurydice, as well as policy texts and data collection manuals from European Union bodies, have been compared and analysed. Particular interest is directed towards examples of measures used in Sweden and the UK. The results suggest that available data on student completion offers only a very limited basis for research-driven comparative analysis. It offers also a problematisation of the notions of researchers seen as users or producers of data and different position takings in statistical reasoning in using statistics as for example different types of evidence for policymaking.

scholarly journals Sujetos colectivos y procesos de trabajo interrogados en triálogo coproductivo. Acerca de la producción social de conocimiento

2017 ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Alberto L. Bialakowsky ◽  
Cecilia Lusnich ◽  
Delia Elena Franco ◽  
José Manuel Grima ◽  
Omar Navarro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Subjective Effects ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Production ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social

ResumenEl énfasis de los aspectos conceptuales y epistemológicos planteados aquí, invita a elaborar y profundizar una mirada compleja como posibilidad para de-velar y des-ficcionalizar procesos, como así sus efectos sociales y subjetivos, promoviendo como punto de partida una interrogación colectiva, no transferida. Sus productos y sus efectos se reflejan en una resignificación que condensa la valoración de su producción cognoscitiva investigativa y el instrumento convergente en su resistencia. Paralelamente, nos dirigimos a revisar desde una perspectiva crítica la producción usual del saber y la relación social entre investigadorinvestigado y el lugar de la ciencia como afluente del cambio.Palabras clave: producción de conocimiento; sujetos colectivos; coproducción investigativa.Abstract The emphasis of the conceptual and epistemological issues raised here invite you to develop a deeper and more complex viewpoint as a possibility to bring to light and break the myths around processes, as well as their social and subjective effects, promoting a collective question as a starting point, not transferred. Their products and effects are reflected on a new meaning that condenses the assessment of their cognitive research production and the converged instrument in their resistance. In parallel, a review of the usual production of knowledge and the social relationship between researcher and the product researched from a critical point of view and the place of science as a means of change has been addressed.Key words: knowledge production; collective subjects, co-research production.

scholarly journals Information Flow and the Quality of Scientific Knowledge Production

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Gislene Farias de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Information Flow ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Scientific Production ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
The World

This is the first edition of Amadeus International Multidisciplinary Journal, a new open acess journal, which has the purpose to motivate and leverage the scientific production of researchers, professors and academics from various fields of knowledge. The speed of Science and circulation of information, impact the interactions that occur between the actors involved. It is through instruments like this, that new changes tend to happen. The purpose is to facilitate people's lives by improving their understanding of the world as well as elucidating issues before obscure.

Journals à la mode? Twenty years of living alongside Mode 2 and the new production of knowledge

Organization ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Bresnen ◽  
Gibson Burrell
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
New Production ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Scientific Knowledge Production ◽  
Mode 2 ◽  
Political Background ◽  
Relations Of Power

This article considers the institutional and political background to the life of Organization associated with continuing debates about ‘modes of scientific knowledge’ and the supposed rise of Mode 2. It suggests that Organization should provide space for a more fully theorized and politically aware position of the new—and old—production of knowledge. It does so by, first, critically exploring the substantial volume of work that continues to insist that Mode 2—and its many variants—have tended to displace more traditional, so-called Mode 1, forms of scientific knowledge production. But its main contribution lies in suggesting that what has lurked behind scientific knowledge production for centuries is a more insidious and underlying mode of knowledge production—one which we label Mode 0—that corresponds to knowledge production based upon relations of power and patronage. We argue that not only does this notion allow us to develop a more penetrating critique of the claims made by proselytizers of Mode 2 but that Mode 0 has proved a more enduring form of knowledge production than Mode 1 and may well have greater longevity. Rather than becoming too embroiled in questions raised by the Mode 1/ Mode 2 debate about the utility of knowledge for managers, we suggest that readers may wish instead to pry further into the hidden world of Mode 0 patronage of knowledge production.

scholarly journals Sujetos colectivos y procesos de trabajo interrogados en triálogo coproductivo. Acerca de la producción social de conocimiento

2017 ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Alberto L. Bialakowsky ◽  
Cecilia Lusnich ◽  
Delia Elena Franco ◽  
José Manuel Grima ◽  
Omar Navarro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Critical Point ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Relationship ◽  
Subjective Effects ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Research Production ◽  
Cognitive Research ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social

ResumenEl énfasis de los aspectos conceptuales y epistemológicos planteados aquí, invita a elaborar y profundizar una mirada compleja como posibilidad para de-velar y des-ficcionalizar procesos, como así sus efectos sociales y subjetivos, promoviendo como punto de partida una interrogación colectiva, no transferida. Sus productos y sus efectos se reflejan en una resignificación que condensa la valoración de su producción cognoscitiva investigativa y el instrumento convergente en su resistencia. Paralelamente, nos dirigimos a revisar desde una perspectiva crítica la producción usual del saber y la relación social entre investigadorinvestigado y el lugar de la ciencia como afluente del cambio.Palabras clave: producción de conocimiento; sujetos colectivos; coproducción investigativa.Abstract The emphasis of the conceptual and epistemological issues raised here invite you to develop a deeper and more complex viewpoint as a possibility to bring to light and break the myths around processes, as well as their social and subjective effects, promoting a collective question as a starting point, not transferred. Their products and effects are reflected on a new meaning that condenses the assessment of their cognitive research production and the converged instrument in their resistance. In parallel, a review of the usual production of knowledge and the social relationship between researcher and the product researched from a critical point of view and the place of science as a means of change has been addressed.Key words: knowledge production; collective subjects, co-research production.

scholarly journals Transnational Co-production of Knowledge: The Standardisation of Typhoon Warning Codes in the Far East, 1900–1939

Minerva ◽  
2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aitor Anduaga
Keyword(s):  
Force Field ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Far East ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Social ◽  
Transnational Cooperation ◽  
Far Eastern

AbstractThe why and the how of knowledge production are examined in the case of the transnational cooperation between the directors of observatories in the Far East who drew up unified typhoon-warning codes in the period 1900–1939. The why is prompted by the socioeconomic interests of the local chambers of commerce and international telegraphic companies, although this urge has the favourable wind of Far Eastern meteorologists’ ideology of voluntarist internationalism. The how entails the persistent pursuit of consensus (on ends rather than means) in international meetings where non-binding resolutions on codes and procedures are adopted. The outcome is the co-production of standardised knowledge, that is, the development of a series of processes and practices that co-produce both knowledge and ideas about the social order in a force field characterised by negotiations and power struggles.

scholarly journals ПОНЯТТЯ ТА СУТНІСТЬ СОЦІАЛЬНОЇ ІНКЛЮЗІЇ У СОЦІАЛЬНІЙ РОБОТІ

2019 ◽  
pp. 233-241
Author(s):  
О. О. Стрельнікова
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Process ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Mechanism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ukrainian Society

The present article is devoted to the problems of inclusion in modern Ukrainian society. The concept and essence of inclusion are studied from the point of view of the theory of social comprehension (of the essence of inclusive group), dynamics of social structure and social interactions. The inclusion is divided into social and educational forms according to the modern approaches to considering types of inclusion. The main forms of inclusion are analyzed from the point of view of pedagogical and social sciences. Special attention is given to the social inclusion in modern Ukrainian society. The comparative analysis of the categories «integration» and «inclusion» is carried out and the main common and distinctive features of these categories are determined in the article. It is said that social inclusion can be analyzed only in context of social exclusion, because they are both parts of the same social process. The potential of such further analysis are researched. The peculiarities of the process of social inclusion in modern Ukrainian society are analyzed. The main characteristics of social inclusion are described in the article on the basis of analysis of modern scientific literature. Special attention is given to the social inclusion in social work and social science. From the point of view of socio-pedagogical science social inclusion is analyzed as democratic action about comprehension somebody or the whole social group into some activity or cultural process. Social inclusion in modern Ukrainian society becomes social mechanism, some kind of an instrument, aimed at overcoming the barriers and constraints on the path to social well-being, which radically changes the existing state social politics. The results of the research are used in the social work, pedagogical and social sciences.

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