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This paper addresses the epistemological tensions generated due to the search for legitimization of scientific knowledge. It stems from the discussion about science seen through "nomothetic" and "ideographic" standpoints, coming to the conclusion that there is a tendency to theorize from a vision that comes from an organizational order, putting on the back burner, to a large extent, the legitimizer tension that occurs in the socialization of scientific knowledge. The paper also values possibilities to analyze social sciences from Bourdieu's scientific field concept, who breaks up certain inertias about the official positions that theorize about science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper contributes to the foundation of a special knowledge sociology the recover of the concept of intersubjective fight for acknowledgment. In a simple way, it presents some findings of the empiric-analytic phase of the research: Base-line for building indicators of knowledge communication in social sciences, arts & humanities area. In terms of the theoretical category, researchers in the area of Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities of the Universidad de Antioquia are claiming visibility of their specialties as a particular form of knowing. Aditionally, they consider that Sistema Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (SNCTI) and the Sistema Universitario de Investigación (SUI) have a unidimensional perception of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An approach to the concept of "race" in the work of the Chilean naturalist Juan Ignacio Molina is presented in this paper, though this work fits into the context of the dispute of the New World and the history of science in Chile. We show how the concept of race contributed to the patriotic epistemology by legitimizing the social classifications in the first half of the nineteenth century, where the Creole elite was placed in a socially privileged position by asserting the myth of "pure blood". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, I discuss the scientific possibilities of communication. The debate focuses on some aspects of the epistemology of communication epistemology and of the construction of a general science to explain social reality and culture. In this essay, I present the main arguments for those who regard scientificity as a possibility or as a vain enterprise. In the second part, I review ample visions of communication by those who call themselves "communicologists"; that is, scientists who have mainly reflected on communication, from outside communication studies. Finally, I explain why communication has become the area of inquiry that leads to the temptation of regarding it as the meeting point of sciences, whose object is information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]