Social capital of communicative fields of the scientific community

Authors

  • Marina G. Valnistaya National Institute for Higher Education, 15 Maskoŭskaya Street, Minsk 220001, Belarus
  • Agamali K. Mamеdov Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1 Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia

Keywords:

science, scientific communications, social capital, communication channels, communicative processes, information exchange, formal and informal structures, scientific community

Abstract

The article presents an expanded definition of social capital created in the field of scientific communications. The authors consider the process of formation of the social capital of science at the stages of the genesis of the scientific interaction of the community of scientists. The article analyzes the forms of existence of social capital and justifies the principles by which necessary conditions for the formation of social capital are created through scientific communications. The moral-ethical, axiological, epistemological aspects and channels of scientific interaction in the modern scientific community are considered, the boundaries of the scientist’s social responsibility for the results of his activity are determined.

Author Biographies

  • Marina G. Valnistaya, National Institute for Higher Education, 15 Maskoŭskaya Street, Minsk 220001, Belarus

    PhD (sociology), docent; head of the department of philosophy and methodology of univer sity education

  • Agamali K. Mamеdov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1 Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia

    doctor of science (sociology), full professor; head of the department of sociology communication systems, faculty of sociology

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2019-03-18

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No. 3 (2018): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology

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How to Cite

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Valnistaya, M.G. and Mamеdov A.K. 2019. Social capital of communicative fields of the scientific community. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Sociology. 3 (Mar. 2019), 89–95.