The Redefinition of Social Scientists Identities from Latin America: Towards a New Intellectual Colonialism?

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https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-73782017000100004%20

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Academic capitalism, Academic identity, Intellectual colonialism, Social sciences

Abstract

The cognitive practices and the publications that derive from them express central aspects of intellectual identity, empirically speaking. In this paper, we study the identities of social scientists in Latin America. In a first section, we describe disciplinary practices from the point of view of the variation of the frequencies and types of publication carried out by social scientists in their production of knowledge. In a second section, we built a description of the semantics involved in such publications. Both sections refer to the accounting of three disciplines: sociology, economics and political science. Data coverage is from five countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico. Finally, the discussion attempts to draw some lessons about academic capitalism in Latin America.

Author Biography

Jorge Gibert, Universidad de Valparaíso

Profesor titular de la Escuela de Negocios Internacionales de la Universidad de Valparaíso. Sociólogo y doctor en filosofía (U. de Chile). Ha realizado estadas de investigación en la UNAM-México, la Universidad de Cambridge-UK y la Universidad de Stanford, USA. Ha escrito más de 50 publicaciones de artículos y capítulos de libros. Autor de “La conexión libertad-determinismo. Una reconstrucción filosófica de las ciencias sociales” (2006) y de “Epistemología de las ciencias sociales” (2012), recientemente ha publicado junto a Edison Otero, un “Diccionario de Epistemología” (RIL, 2017). Sus áreas de interés actual son la sociología de los intelectuales y los estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología.

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2017-05-15

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Gibert, J. (2017). The Redefinition of Social Scientists Identities from Latin America: Towards a New Intellectual Colonialism?. Revista Latinoamericana De Educación Inclusiva, 11(1), 35–55. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-73782017000100004

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Vol. 11 No. 1 (2017): Education and Identity Redefinitions: Ethnic and Sociocultural Crossroads

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Sección Temática

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