Scientific Globalization of Cultures: An Essay on Complexity and Utopia

Authors

  • Carley Rodrigues Alves Departamento de Educação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
  • Márcia Brito Nery Alves Núcleo de Pós-Graduação em Geografia, Universidade Federal de Sergipe

Keywords:

scientific cultures, humanistic culture, crisis of language, complexity

Abstract

The present article excites a quarrel concerning the limits of the scientific knowledge front to the crisis oflanguage tried for the most diverse branches of knowing, producing an environment of neologisms,migrations of concepts and sharing of categories while recent phenomenon, dated of last five decades.The verification of this phenomenon opens theoretical and practical perspectives of approach between thescientific culture and the humanistic culture, as well as the two great traditions of scientific knowing - thedomain of physic-natural sciences and the domain of human-social sciences -, favoring a new phase ofglobalization of the scientific cultures.

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Published

2012-12-04

How to Cite

Alves, C. R., & Alves, M. B. N. (2012). Scientific Globalization of Cultures: An Essay on Complexity and Utopia. Scientia Plena, 3(5). Retrieved from https://scientiaplena.org.br/sp/article/view/1192

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 5 (2007): September/Setembro 2007

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