Science and Industry
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Patrick O'Mahony [1]
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[1] University College Cork
University College Cork
Irlanda
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- Localización: Innovations in education and teaching international, ISSN 1470-3297, Vol. 28, Nº 1, 1991, págs. 30-42
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
Industry loses its autonomy in advanced modern society as science increasingly dictates the economic agenda. Rival socio‐political explanations of the relationship–technocratic and Marxist–rely on antagonistic theories which respectively emphasize the primacy of cognitive‐instrumental and social‐normative factors. A critical assessment of both of these positions reveals the theoretical requirement of exploring internal (cognitive)–methodological–and external (normative)–social, cultural and economic–conditions of science in the historical context of changes in economic structures from early capitalist to industrial and, latterly, post‐industrial. The basic historico‐theoretical orientation that emerges is then used to demonstrate how the economy has become scientized and how industrial organizations need adequate learning capability to effectively utilize scientifically produced knowledge. The paper concludes by suggesting that sociological learning theory articulated in the form of a theory of collective learning is necessary for an explanatory account of the science‐industry relation in the present social and political climate.
