نوع مقاله : پژوهشی
نویسنده
استادیار فلسفه علم، موسسه تحقیقات سیاست علمی کشور
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عنوان مقاله English
نویسنده English
A social subject, such as the university, is involved in a wide range of issues, and social research on the university is conducted to address them. In the studies, multiple methods are used, each of which can examine the university only from a specific perspective and with an emphasis on specific concepts. Government sponsors and industrial investors, who are only interested in some of the university's functions, also support only the research they are interested in, thereby leading to the more “valuable”, more prominent, and more strengthened concepts that are important to those investors and sponsors outside the university. The result of such a process is the destruction of the university's internal norms and, as a consequence, scientific and financial misconduct. For decades, critical theory scholars have been concerned with this issue: the importance of considering the totality of a social issue rather than addressing only a specific aspect. The present article, by describing the methodology of critical theory, and by presenting a discussion of Iranian university-related researches, claims that Iranian traditional (positivistic) researches, by highlighting some interests of specific groups, and eliminating public considerations, such as ideas related to the ethics of science, may lead to the weakening of the functioning, or even the collapse, of the institution of science and the university.
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