O macrocosmo social da nanociência: estudo sobre as pesquisas em nanotecnologia da Embrapa e da Unicamp / The social macrocosm of nanoscience: study on nanotechnology researchs of Embrapa and Unicamp

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2009

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The unrestricted diffusion of mercantile relations to all fields of the society, and the forced inclusion of natural and social wealth in the category of commodities, are phenomena that are imposing new conditions to the production of science and the scientific work. In the context of contemporary capitalism, we see two tendencies in acceleration: first, the transformation of scientist in a salaried proletarian at the service of capital; second, the transformation of science itself in a fictitious commodity, by means of which the production of a useful knowledge (use value) is only a subterfuge to increase the value of capital by patent (exchange value). On this base, the aim of our dissertation is discuss and analyse a) which conditionings the capitalist accumulation logic is imposing to the research activities; b) which functions the scientific work affords to the capital; c) how functions the knowledge as commodity; d) what is the role performed by the State in bringing near the research activities and the market; and e) which new moral values and practices is adopting by scientists. We take as theoretical principles the theory of social fields proposed by Bourdieu, and the theory of value by Marx. We focus our investigation on the development of nanotechnology, because this is a new area of technological knowledge that is attracting powerful political and economical interests. As scope of our work, we examine two divisions of Embrapa and two institutes of Unicamp both of them inserted in a preliminar fieldwork to compare the scientific field, the economical field, and a presumed technological field. Our researching procedures was based in partly structured interviews, and bibliographical and documental surveys.

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embrapa nanotecnologia capital work nanotechnology embrapa ciência capita unicamp science trabalho unicamp

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