Perspectivas de los estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología

Isabel Licha

doi:10.48160/18517072re4.744

Authors

Isabel Licha Universidad Central de Venezuela

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re4.744

Keywords:

R&D, social studies, science

Abstract

The aim of this article is to characterize current trends in the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the United States context. Two central focal points are thus manifested. Within the academic fields, we find the opposition between "contructivists" and "critics" about an adequate problematization of science and technology. Without them, current polemics on intellectual propertyin Research and Development, and their consequences, gain fundamental relevance. The paper ends with an analysis of the implications of these debates for the Latin American community working on
the field of Social Studies on Science and Technology.

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