A produção de conhecimento em biologia : uma pesquisa edtnografia / Knowledge production in biology : an ethnographic research
AUTOR(ES)
Marla Leci Weihs
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2008
RESUMO
This research may be classified as a laboratory study of the biological scientific community of the Mato Grosso State University Campus (UNEMAT) in Nova Xavantina - MT. It follows the methodological approach developed by Latour and Woolgar (1987) and it relies on the concepts of lab and field research proposed by Kohler (2002) applied to. The study aims to identify the factors that lead to the choice of certain biology research lines and not others. It also identifies the determinants of the establishment of research teams and the dynamics of knowledge production in the interior of each team. Ti this end, it investigates the role of institutional factors and of those linked to the local environment on the scientific research development; the social construction of the research agenda and scientific culture that differentiates the researchers into three tribes - field, the border and the laboratory - in Biology. The findings reveal that the factors that enabled the development of biological research in the peripheral countryside university of Mato Grosso State were as follows: the type of professional qualification encouraged by UNEMAT; the funding of small scope projects, the implementation of infrastructure and the purchase of research equipment; the preference for low-cost researches given the easy access to savannah fields and the researchers specialization in specific lines of field and border Biology. , The findings also indicate that a biology researcher chooses to be a field, lab or border researcher since the beginning of his/her career in accordance to the research topic or line of investigation pursued. Research training, be it at the undergraduate or graduate level, is the admission ticket of a "common person" to the scientific world, by enabling the learning of techniques, methodologies, theories and "scientific attitudes" that are part of the cycle of credibility of a specific specialty. The credits earned in their careers are used as currency exchange allowing the recognition of peers and research funding institutions. The latter are the true motivation of the researchers, despite their showing passion for biological research
ASSUNTO(S)
science knowledge production etnografia etnografia - trabalhos de campo produção do conhecimento ciencia - aspectos sociais
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
http://libdigi.unicamp.br/document/?code=vtls000446329Documentos Relacionados
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