Article ID: CBB627272550

Culture counts more than money: Israeli critiques of German science (December 2019)

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Yair, Gad (Author)


Social Studies of Science
Volume: 49
Issue: 6
Pages: 898-918


Publication Date: December 2019
Edition Details: Themed Issue: Academic Lives and Culture
Language: English

While economic investments and organizational reforms may support Germany’s scientific ambitions, its culture remains a significant influence on how those ambitions work themselves out. The study relied on interviews with 125 Israeli scientists and on responses of nineteen of their German collaborators to a questionnaire. Data analysis found four cultural priorities that – in the context of comparisons with Israeli scientific culture – respondents suggest cut short the potential of German science: privileging technology over meaning and insight, privileging hierarchy over creativity, privileging cosmos over chaos, and privileging German over English. Respondents suggest that these cultural priorities silence alternative points of view and censor young scientists, limit motivation and stifle imagination, preordain problem-solving orientations, and restrict communication flows. As they consider policy targets for 2020 and beyond, the new German government, foundation leaders, and scientists need to discuss those cultural challenges. The study calls for scholars in science and technology studies to pay more attention to national cultures as decisive factors in framing the limits and possibilities of science.

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Article Sergio Sismondo (December 2019) Academic Lives and Cultures. Social Studies of Science (pp. 813-816). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Tibor Dessewffy
Dániel Váry
Madeleine Pape
Yehonatan Abramson
Dányi, Endre
Ishihara-Shineha, Seiko
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Science and State
Cross-national comparison
Science
Research
Science and society
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
18th century
17th century
16th century
20th century, early
Places
Israel
Germany
China
Rome (Italy)
United Kingdom
Georgia (Republic)
Institutions
Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research - IVIC
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