Political and economic instrumentalisation of science: Towards an extended concept of corruption

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-02-22 DOI:10.1002/sres.3001

Krešimir Žažar, Steffen Roth

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Popular perception holds that science has been distorted by the pressure of expectations of economic utility or political desirability. Grounded in Niklas Luhmann's system theory, this paper examines the interplay of the political, economic and scientific subsystem of society to scrutinise the idea that science has been corrupted by economy and politics. To this end, we extend the notion of corruption beyond the common, predominantly legal meaning. As a result, we identify organisations as loci of corruptions that can occur at the interfaces of economy, politics and law as much as at the interfaces of science, education and economy or science, politics and health. We conclude that further conceptual and empirical research on these and similar cases of corruption is a worthy scientific goal.

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科学的政治和经济工具化：走向扩展的腐败概念

人们普遍认为，在经济效用预期或政治愿望的压力下，科学已被扭曲。本文以尼克拉斯-卢曼（Niklas Luhmann）的系统理论为基础，研究了社会的政治、经济和科学子系统之间的相互作用，以审视科学已被经济和政治所腐蚀的观点。为此，我们扩展了腐败的概念，使其超越了一般的、以法律为主的含义。因此，我们将组织视为腐败的发生地，腐败可能发生在经济、政治和法律的交界处，也可能发生在科学、教育和经济或科学、政治和健康的交界处。我们的结论是，对这些和类似的腐败案例进行进一步的概念和实证研究是一个值得追求的科学目标。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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