Scientific Research Culture Research Articles

The Role of Everyday Culture for a Scientific Orientation in Philippine Society: Are the Youth Any Different?

This paper discusses the attitudes of Filipino youth towards science and technology. While the sample is derived mainly from elite educational institutions, the paper is more concerned with exemplarity rather than representativity. Moreover, the paper contextualizes these orientations around the culture of everyday life. It seeks to relate ordinary, often unperceived notions of culture, to attitudes towards science and technology. Notions of competence and achievement, ideas about nature and the environment, expectations of trust, risk, and the future determine the possibilities of developing a culture of scientific research and technological development. Globalization and the new communications media are increasingly pervasive forces in Philippine society. The youth are most affected by these new trends and orientations. Their response to these challenges will affect the future of science and technology in the Philippines. This paper, thus, explores how the culture of everyday life is adopted as well as transformed by the youth in the process of incorporating contemporary practices and responses to modernity.

Forum: »What we need is a better world to live in!«

First paragraph You are an economist who has done research at a lot of locations and universities all over the world. Is there a common culture of scientific research? What is common, what is different with regard to doing research in Delhi, Cambridge, or Berlin?

The culture of science and the ethics of alcohol administration in research.

The failure of ethicists to develop an absolute ethical code has led to the consideration of ethics in particular contexts. In the alcohol field, such consideration has resulted in considerable controversy, because this field has been influenced by parallel cultural contexts: a scientific research culture and a layman's spiritual culture (represented by Alcoholics Anonymous). Both cultures can inform ethical decisions, but for scientific decisions to be made the influence of these cultures must be disentangled. This article reviews issues pertaining to this disentangling in connection with the use of alcohol administration in research.

Evidence-based care in nursing: reforms versus research, rhetoric versus reality.

The new evidence-based health care culture, together with nurses' demands for enhanced professional status, has embedded within its strategy the imperative to develop a corpus of nursing-specific research. These apparently compatible aims were intended to meet the need for enhanced professional status while at the same time enabling clinical nursing practice to be justified on scientific grounds. While the dual reform agendas brought with them the resistance that always accompanies radical amendments to the status quo, they also seem to have created an unanticipated reciprocal antagonism which has impeded the development of nursing research. The policy changes that were necessary to meet the prerequisites for professional status have had a detrimental effect on the potential for generating an adequate body of nursing research. This second paper discusses some of the key reforms to nursing that have been implemented over the last decade and their impact on nursing's progress towards creating its own esoteric research knowledge base that could inform clinical care. It is suggested that policy and research may be diametrically opposed, and that nursing, if it is committed to professionalization, may have to reconsider its allegiance to the scientific research culture in favor of achieving some of the other objectives on its agenda.