We can try to defend our future job saying: “this is science and this is not”. I believe that those arguments are very stupid. A lot of disciplines that in some time had that name, today are nothing. Science is a social institution, so, it can change, and the categories too. For a long time, activities that are not known like science have been doing important and interesting things. For some disciplines is not necessary to be catalogued like "science" for to do works that have relevancy in social level. For example: anthropology is called science, and archaeology is not. We can go to do questions to the people and we will find that the society have a idea about what it is archaeology more nearby than they imagine that it is anthropology. For some people, that “science” do not exist, or is a science of second category. So the anthropologist will have to do a work about what is the impact of archaeology in the people, because, though the archaeological hypotheses are not eternal (as in any science) usually the people have a notion about it.
We can find the importance, for example, in the nationalism. The archaeology discoveries and the interpretations of the investigators help in the task of promoting that, and though is an irrational feeling, it has an important effect in the society.
Hello Anita! Yes, sometimes the science is driven by subjective ideas. When this happens I think that the science isn´t sciencie. The nationalism during years didn´t give espace to science.
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Is very interest your post, really I´ve never worried much about it because I think that the concept of science is subjective, it depend of the history period in that this is, therefore its principles have changed over time even if they are hiding.
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Hi my dear! I'm totally agree with you! Scientists thinks they're always right, but they don't have in mind something; Science is just a social convention, as well as language.
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