Abstract

transformation. Comparative analysis of science in different societies would illuminate specific features of the structure and organization of science, values and norms guiding the cognitive activities of the communities of scientists and interaction between science on the one hand and economic and political power structures of a given society on the other. In the context of underdeveloped countries, linkages between members of their scientific communities on the one hand and their counterparts in the advanced Western countries on the other should be studied. It is important to understand such interactions based on shared interests including cognitive orientations. This paper is an attempt to understand the Indian scientific community by focusing on the pattern of evaluation of scientific work.

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