Elementos sociais para a compreensão do prestígio científico e de seus riscos

• Autor(a) principal: Carvalho, Washington Luiz Pacheco de [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://revistas.pedagogica.edu.co/index.php/TED/article/view/1101; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/134720
• topic: Social relations in science; Public image of science; Scientificism; Relações sociais nas ciências; Imagem pública das ciências; Cientificismo

Natural sciences have an enormous status in public opinion. Their achievements, which become known mostly by means of technology, give to them social credibility, unconditional support and positive social expectances. Further, their social images, generated by the success of their products, tend to lead people to develop only favorable ideas about scientists and about how science works, which are even more reinforced in the schools. By another side, the history of science has been allowed us to comprehend the internal and external social relations concerning to science, showing it as a field of disputes, interests and contradictions as many other fields which comprise human relations. Therefore, the objective of this text is to present social elements of the construction and impacts of natural science, aiming at putting in evidence the importance of the social studies of the scientific world for the courses of education of science teachers.