Luis Alfonso Chávarro

Luis Alfonso Chávarro
University of Valle | UNIVALLE · Instituto de Educación y Pedagogía

Doctor en Sociología PUCP

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Introduction
Luis Alfonso Chávarro currently works at the IEP, Universidad del Valle (Colombia), but as independent research, investigates in Social Theory in several countries. His current project on political sociology of science is carried out in Peru and Colombia.

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To understand the current social transformations, it is necessary to begin by understanding some preliminary concepts such as technological change, social change and the relationship between technological factor and social change. Technology can be a factor of change, but it has not always been so and to affirm it immediately would be to fall into...
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A comienzos del siglo XXI las representaciones sociales de la tecnología en los contextos periféricos han tomado características que requieren de análisis. En los últimos tiempos han aflorado debates sobre la relación sociedad y tecnología que permiten decodificar el hecho de que la Tecnología haya adquirido poderes taumatúrgicos pero también trans...
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Resumen El trabajo como concepto o término abstracto que relaciona de manera cuantitativa y cualitativa los oficios y actividades humanas es característico del Occidente moderno. Ante tal afirmación se hace necesario mostrar por qué el trabajo constituye uno de los elementos centrales de lo que se conoce como modernidad y se ha impuesto en el mundo...
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This reflective essay seeks to contribute to the discussion on inequality under the premise that it is necessary to articulate the theoretical foundations to define it and allow a more comprehensive empirical approach. Thus, what is proposed here, is an articulation of approaches to inequality such as the one derived from the theory of social class...
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Tras la vigencia del modelo lineal de política científica, desde los años sesenta se fue gestando un modelo centrado en la economía de la innovación y la competitividad que, hacia los ochenta, se materializó en guiones, rápidamente difundidos y apropiados en muchos países del mundo occidental. Sus fuentes conceptuales se encuentran en ideas de econ...
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Among the transformations that have taken place, what has been called the advent of modernity stands out today. Many events have been pointed out from different sides as determining factors in the configuration of modernity. Undoubtedly, the controversy concerns all disciplines, but social and cultural history, with a background of historical socio...
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Los desarrollos de una disciplina como la historia han puesto de relieve el estudio de las clasificaciones caprichosas que han realizado quienes están facultados para llevar el diario registro de la humanidad a través del tiempo. Dichas clasificaciones en su gran mayoría se han caracterizado por identificar etapas de tránsito en la humanidad en un...
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Este artículo presenta el análisis sociológico de los debates surgidos en un país como Colombia tras la implementación de un modelo de política científica a partir de los años noventa y centrado en la idea de la innovación productiva. El abordaje se realiza vinculando el análisis de las controversias, surgido en la sociología del conocimiento cient...
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Introduction: the article highlights the importance of the conceptual foundations derived from the sociological institutionalism approach to world culture to understand globalization based on the convergence criterion through categories such as policy diffusion and dif fusion mechanisms. Objective: it proposes to analyze the diffusion of scienc...
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In summary, from a brief historical perspective of science in Colombia, it becomes evident that processes such as secularization, important for the manifestation of a secular mentality open to explanations detached from religious schemes; or the process of institutionalization of science, fundamental for the creation and survival of norms and organ...
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This article synthesizes an investigation on the appropriation of the international model of innovation in Colombian Scientific Policy and the controversial dynamics generated after its implementation. The mode of analysis adopted lies in an integration by a combination of micro approaches (representations and controversies), with macro approaches...
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Analyzing underlying ideas in texts and scientific policy documents is an objective that requires methods that not only allow the recurrence of words or terms to be identified, but also appropriate theoretical-methodological approaches to identify their meaning. Although positivism taught that science is objective, from a constructivist perspecti...
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Abstract: Analyze the underlying ideas in texts and documents such as scientific policy is an objective that requires methods that not only identify the recurrence of words or terms but appropriate theoretical-methodological approaches to identify their meaning. Although positivism taught that science was objective, today we know, from a constructi...
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Starting from the consideration of the imaginary and the key concepts to operationalize concepts such as social significance, institution and functions, indicated by Castoriadis, this article highlights the work of Daniel H. Cabrera to understand the imaginary of new technologies, as well as work by Patrick Flichy on the imaginary of the Internet,...
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Based on the theory of social representations, this work seeks to investigate how science coexists with myths and becomes a representation, showing interesting attempts to prove that assertion. We start by looking at how the model of belief replacement by scientific knowledge does not hold up and, instead, we talk about a coexistence model between...
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La idea de interacción constituye un elemento central de lo que es la sociedad. Son las redes de interacciones y la forma que éstas toman las que configuran un tipo particular de relaciones, en cierta forma constituyen el núcleo de lo social, o como diría Weber, de la acción social. La complejidad resultante de la interacción entre individuos, grup...
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The present research consists, on the whole, in a study of scientific policy made from a sociological perspective and, in particular, from a political sociology of science, in light of theoretical approaches such as the World Culture of John Meyer and the Theory of Field of Pierre Bourdieu. The specific problem addressed resides in the analysis of...
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En las sociedades actuales, caracterizadas por el desarrollo científico-tecnológico, se experimenta una sensación de incertidumbre ante eventos considerados como efectos colaterales, resultado precisamente del éxito de dicho desarrollo. La conceptualización de estos sucesos ha sido llevada a cabo desde la sociología por autores como Ulrich Beck, An...
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In order to define scientific culture as a culture, in this article it is investigated by its humanistic, anthropological and sociological senses, and from the latter, it presents a panorama of what is understood by scientific culture, to link it with the concept of political culture and democratic citizenship. After this, it is shown how this link...
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Para mirar cómo puede haberse configurado un mito sobre el potencial de las TIC en cuanto a la democracia, se muestra en este texto una síntesis de la discusión sobre la morfología de la red y sus metáforas, y luego, los discursos sobre la democracia directa, en detrimento,a veces, de la democracia representativa. No se trata de estrereotipar los d...
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Las representaciones constituyen categorías especiales para decodificar en clave de descolonización cómo la tecnología se ha convertido en el discurso de la modernización. Éstas se presentan aquí en categorías conceptuales de investigación y dimensiones, buscando percibirlas en los discursos sobre tecnologías y nuevas tecnologías como significados...
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The social representations of technology as progress and the discourses of current technological development and the path to modernization have become central elements of legitimation of the global capitalist development model. Because of his dominant and seductive character, these representations become the fertile soil on which the models of the...
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La disponibilidad de computadores y su conexión a la red Internet, lo mismo que la disponibilidad de soportes como CDROM y DVD, parece haberse convertido en un factor de diferenciación y desigualdad social en el mundo de hoy. Este problema ha sido fuente de múltiples debates respecto de la tecnología en sí, pero ahora cobra más auge dada la potenci...
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It is common to associate almost automatically the technological change with the social change under the studies of technology, that is, technological determinism. In contrast, it is the thought that the people in the society are the ones who determin the road to be taken of a technology. The latter is consider the social construction of the techno...
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In 1995, it was 100 years since the birth of Lewis Mumford. For that reason, the then professor Daniel Arbeláez, recently deceased in November of 2016, who directed Heuristica Magazine of Engineering PINO at the Universidad del Valle de Cali-Colombia, approved my idea of paying homage to Lewis Mumford, the great thinker Of the technique. Finally th...
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En una síntesis de la reflexión actual que se adelanta dentro del campo delas ciencias sociales, especialmente entre sociólogos e historiadores de la tecnología, en torno a las relaciones entre la tecnología y la sociedad, se muestran en el artículo el debate ylos términos en que se ha enfrascado la polémica (determinismo tecnológico versus constru...

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