Essay Review : Scientific Development: The Development of Science, Science and Development, and the Science of Development

Anderson, Mary B.; Buck, Peter

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“…6. For a succinct survey of the history of biology in Costa Rica, see L. D. Gomez and J. M. Savage, "Searchers on That Rich Coast: Costa Rican Field Biology, 1400-1980 in Costa Rican Natural History, edited by Daniel H. Janzen (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 1-11. For an excellent book-length study on the institutionalization of modern science around 1900, see Nancy Stepan, Beginnings of Brazilian Science: Oswaldo Cruz, Medical Research, and Policy, 1890-1920(New York: Science History Publications, 1976).…”

Section: Costa Rican Science Before the Ifgmentioning

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The Origins of Modern Science in Costa Rica: The Instituto Físico-Geográfico Nacional, 1887–1904

Eakin

1999

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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This essay reconstructs the history of the Instituto Fisico-Ceogrdiico Nacional, its scientists, and their activities. After surveying the historical context and the first scientific activities in Costa Rica, it narrates the institutional history of the IFG. Also covered are the main activities of the Instituto-meteorology, botany, agriculture, andethnography, especially theefforts to mapCosta Rica in the 1890s. Theworkof this institute and the scientists associated untn it markthefitful beginnings of the institutionalization of modern science in Costa Rica. Thecase of theIFG clearly demonstrates theenormous obstacles facing scientists and scientific institutions in the agro-exporting economies of modern Latin America. As a small country on the "periphery of the periphery," Costa Rica offers an extreme example of the problems of cultivating modern science in developing nations.

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Section: Costa Rican Science Before the Ifgmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Origins of Modern Science in Costa Rica: The Instituto Físico-Geográfico Nacional, 1887–1904

Eakin

1999

Lat. American Res. Rev.

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“…See also Needham and Blue 1980. For a critical review of some of these ideologies, see Anderson and Buck 1980. 2 Of course, this article of faith is not without its ideological underpinnings, namely that an independent national scientific community is a sine qua non for independence per se. See Shils 1961;Spaey et al 1971;Moravcsik 1976.…”

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Images of Knowledge, Social Organization, and Attitudes to Research in an Indian Physics Department

Raj

1988

Science in Context

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The ArgumentSociologists of Third World science, who share the dominant assumption in the philosophy of science that the “culture” of specific substantive fields of scientific inquiry is invariant across the globe, have, after a period of blind optimism devoted to building a critical mass of scientists in the developing countries, relapsed into a bleaker mood and see the Third World as a peripheral region lacking in “creativity” in its research programs.Challenging the doctrine of the universality of scientific practice by means of an in situ study of an Indian physics laboratory, an attempt is made to bring to light a particular community's shared ideals of knowledge (provided by the specific historico-cultural Indian context) which animate the everyday practice of its field of study and fashion its choice of problems, style of professional communication, attitudes toward experiment, etc. These local ingredients should not be understood as deficiencies with respect to some arbitrary norm (mostly taken as the practice in the particular field of inquiry in the “developed” world) but as what differentiates research practices in different parts of the world.

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Scientometrics

Gómez-Morales¹

2007

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology

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Scientometrics is a methodological discipline and an administrative practice. In the first case, its major concern has been the identification of patterns of communication among scientists supporting theoretical models of cognitive and institutional development of science. In the second case, its concern is the identification of patterns in science and technology activities conceived as an input/output productive system. In both cases the identification of patterns is quantitative oriented and the interpretation of data has relied heavily on economic and sociological models and in recent times, on informational models, too.

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Essay Review : Scientific Development: The Development of Science, Science and Development, and the Science of Development

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The Origins of Modern Science in Costa Rica: The Instituto Físico-Geográfico Nacional, 1887–1904

The Origins of Modern Science in Costa Rica: The Instituto Físico-Geográfico Nacional, 1887–1904

Images of Knowledge, Social Organization, and Attitudes to Research in an Indian Physics Department

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