The social sciences in the new world order
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https://doi.org/10.24215/26183188e070Keywords:
globalization, transnationality, hegemonic science, social scienceAbstract
Current science conceives not only the hard sciences and technology as a national economic resource of the dominant states, but also, hand in hand with the knowledge-based economy, assigns new missions to the social sciences. On the other hand, the new forms of State that began to take shape in some countries after the neoliberal reforms of the 1980s and 1990s generate new challenges for the social sciences. In this article, these aspects are analyzed, and a construction of the cumulative social sciences is proposed, focused more on explaining the reality of life and empirical work than on discussing supposed big or small theories once again. It is concluded that, in the future of the social sciences, ethical, ideological and epistemological issues will be the order of the day regarding issues such as development, globalization, diversity, public policies, democracy, citizenship, responsible innovation, possible and desirable futures and crossroads. ethics.
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