“科学文化”:科学知识的传播之网

“Scientific Culture”: the Network for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge

文化作为人类社会的一种抽象符号,具有审美、道德评价和意识形态评判的功能。科学作为一种人类活动,无疑是在这种文化中产生的,并成为不同于文学文化的科学文化。文化的地方性使得产生于其中的科学在发生的意义上也具有了地方性,这与科学知识的普遍适应性形成了鲜明的对照。本文试图阐明:文化作为价值评判的方式、传播知识的途径以及扩展知识的手段,是理解科学知识的产生和形成过程中必不可少的背景性和渗透性因素,在某种程度上可以说是文化塑造并制约了科学的发展。

Culture, as an abstract symbol of human society, has the function of aesthetic, moral evaluation and ideological judgment. Science as a human activity, is undoubtedly produced in this culture, and becomes a scientific culture that is different from the literary culture. The locality of culture makes the science that comes from it also have a locality in the sense of occurrence, which is in sharp contrast to the general adaptability of scientific knowledge. As a way of judging value, disseminating knowledge and expanding knowledge, Culture is an essential background to understand the production process of scientific knowledge.To some extent, it can be said that culture has shaped and constrained the development of science is to understand the formation of scientific knowledge and formation of essential background.