Ciência e divulgação científica: reflexões sobre o processo de produção e socialização do saber

Abstract

This paper presents a discussion of the social functions of scientific knowledge and its forms of socialization in contemporary society. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics in association with philosophical and discursive perspectives of scientific popularization, scientific knowledge and its representations are here taken as inevitably related to political and economical interests, social contexts and institutional and cultural circumstances. It is argued science and its forms of appropriation and sharing are far from being socially neutral, influencing and being influenced by the relations established among the various groups of actors involved in different
ways in society constitution.