ResumenLas relaciones entre ciencia y sociedad han pasado por diversos momentos a lo largo de la historia. En la actualidad, dichas relaciones están marcadas por la ambivalencia y la incertidumbre, las cuales generan diferentes desajustes en y entre ambas esferas. De un lado, el avance de la esfera tecno-científica, de otro, el desfase y la percepción de amenaza que sufre la sociedad respecto a tal desarrollo. Tales acontecimientos están poniendo de manifiesto la necesidad de replantear tales relaciones de acuerdo con parámetros que traten de poner en mayor contacto ambas orillas de un mismo mundo. Palabras clave: ambivalencia, comprensión pública de la ciencia, estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología, incertidumbre, sociología del conocimiento.
Abstract. Ambivalence and uncertainty in the relationships between science and societyThe science-society relationship has gone by several circumstances along the history. At the present, their relationship is marked by the ambivalence and the uncertainty that it generates diverse upsets into and among both spheres. The advance of the techno-scientific sphere and the difference and the threat perception that society suffers with reference to scientific and technological development suppose that it is necessary to restate such relationship in accordance with frameworks that try to put in more contact both sides of oneself world.
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