The Sociology of Science – New Challenges

Eduard M. Mirsky

Science Governance and Scientometrics Journal, 2012, vol. 7, issue 1, 7-23

Abstract: The problem of «Integrity of Research», attempts of its substantial theoretical judgment and the practical decision occupied national governmental agencies, and also many research divisions. Emergency mobilization of so considerable intellectual, financial and organizational resources was caused by need to cope mass and all growing number of publications of substandard research results (a fabrication and falsification of data, wrongfully their expanded interpretation, plagiarism etc.). All this is absolutely legally qualified by sociologists as violation of scientific ethics, and into question and in general the acceptability of ideas of scientific community and scientific ethics on which the Merton’s sociology of a science in due time was based thereby is even more often called. As any distinct alternatives to these representations it is not offered yet, the author tries to understand their potential which for one reason or another wasnʼt made active on the ways chosen as sociology of a science in subsequent (after Merton) decades.

Keywords: Sociology of science; integrity in research; management of research; scientific community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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