Hechos, teorías e ideología: Viola Klein y la sociología del conocimiento científico

Eulalia Pérez Sedeño

doi:10.5565/rev/athenead/v12n2.964

Facts, theories and ideologies: Viola Klein and Sociology of Scientific Knowledge

Authors

Eulalia Pérez Sedeño Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Abstract

Several studies on history, philosophy and sociology of science have demonstrated that science is not autonomous and value-neutral and its selfless search of truth is an ideal theoretical myth far from the real practice of science, which is an aggregate of social practices. Viola Klein was a pioneer in studying science using the same instruments and categories utilized in any other social practice. The aim of this work is to highlight her contributions to Sociology of Scientific Knowledge at a moment when this discipline was, at the most, incipient.

Keywords

Scientific facts, Values and interests in science, Sexual differences, Co-construction of science and culture

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Author Biography

Eulalia Pérez Sedeño, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Dpt. Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad

IFS-CCHS

CSIC

Profesora de Investigación