Fazer ciência e fazer-se cientista em Pernambuco : o caso da FACEPE

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Andreia Patrícia dos
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/6314
• topic: Fundação de Amparo à Ciência e Tecnologia (PE); Ciência e tecnologia; Cientistas; Ciência e Estado; Sociedades científicas; Fundação de Amparo a Ciência e Tecnologia de Pernambuco (FACEPE); Campo científico; Habitus; Comunidade científica; Science; Science and state; Scientists; Scientific field; Scientific community; CNPQ::OUTROS::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS

The main objective of this dissertation is to understand and analyze the Foundation for Science and Technology of the State of Pernambuco (FACEPE), its practices (management and operation procedures) and the relationship with stakeholders (researchers). It starts with the hypothesis that the practices used by the Foundation are strongly related to the experience and knowledgement accumulated in the scientific field, throughout history. This accumulation has led to the formation of a scientific culture and thus the construction of an habitus of the science professional, including expressing the particularity and universality of scientists from Pernambuco. This field consists of struggles and conflicts between actors involved in the constant pursuit of scientific authority, distinction and a better positioning in the field itself. Under these circumstances, FACEPE is understood as a microcosm of the scientific field, since it supplies symbolic and economic resources, while producing and reproducing the logic of the academic community. In this context, the research supports the theory of Pierre Bourdieu, as regards the notion of scientific field and habitus. The research procedures included interviews and form applications, as well as documentary and bibliographic sources. The period of analysis focused on 1989, year of creation of the Foundation, until 2011. As a result, it is possible to highlight that the actions of the Foundation are a reproduction of the sense of the scientific field, such as the occupation of management positions (its president and scientific director) and operating (its council and chamber). These are areas characterized by authority and academic competence, peer recognition, distinction and accumulation of symbolic capital (scientific, educational, social, etc.), embodied largely in Curriculum Lattes plataform. One of the manifestations of these are the edicts, since they also obey the rules established in the field, since the symbolic capital of the agent (the Curriculum Lattes) has great importance when assessing the merit of the project. Plus, another aspect identified from the data analysis is that there is a reproduction of the established order within the scientific community of Pernambuco, both by agents already present (certain researchers in relation to others) compared to younger and/or "newcomers" to the field, and with regard to certain areas instead of others, such as the natural and exact sciences facing the field of humanities. These elements show the characteristics of science and of their own habitus.