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Invisibilizing politics: Accepting and legitimating ignorance in environmental sciences

机译:隐瞒政治:接受和合法化环境科学中的无知

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Although sociologists have explored how political and economic factors influence the formation of ignorance in science and technology, we know little about how scientists comply with external controls by abandoning their prior research and leaving scientific innovations incomplete. Most research in science and technology studies (STS) on ignorance has relied on structural and historical analyses, lacking in situ studies in scientific laboratories. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article examines the habitus of ignorance as a mechanism of the social production of ignorance. Scientists have a set of dispositions that establish practical contexts enabling them to ignore particular scientific content. Leaders of the organization repeatedly legitimate the abandonment of unfinished projects, while ordinary laboratory scientists internalize the normalized view that the scientific field is inherently opportunistic and that unfunded research should be left undone. A cycle of legitimation and acceptance of ignorance by actors at distinctive positions within the organization provides a mechanism of social control of scientific knowledge. As the mechanism is habitually self-governed by the rules of the game of current scientific institutions, the result is an indirect, although deeply subjugating, invisible and consolidating form of political and economic domination of the scientific field.
机译:尽管社会学家已经探索了政治和经济因素如何影响科学技术中无知的形成,但我们对科学家如何通过放弃先前的研究并使科学创新不完整而如何遵守外部控制知之甚少。关于无知的科学技术研究(STS)中的大多数研究都依赖于结构和历史分析,而科学实验室则缺乏现场研究。本文利用人种学研究方法,研究了无知的习惯,将其作为社会无知产生的一种机制。科学家们具有一套可以建立实际环境的倾向,使他们能够忽略特定的科学内容。该组织的领导人一再证明放弃未完成的项目是合法的,而普通的实验室科学家则将标准化的观点内在化,即科学领域具有内在的机会主义性质,而未获资助的研究则应予以放弃。组织中不同位置的参与者合法化和接受无知的循环提供了科学知识的社会控制机制。由于该机制习惯性地受到当前科学机构博弈规则的自治,结果是间接的,尽管深深地征服,看不见和巩固了科学领域的政治和经济统治形式。

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