Ambivalence and uncertainty in the relationships between science and society

Abstract

The science-society relationship has gone by several circumstances along the history. At the present, their relationship is marked by the ambivalence and the uncertainty that it generates diverse upsets into and among both spheres. The advance of the techno-scientific sphere and the difference and the threat perception that society suffers with reference to scientific and technological development suppose that it is necessary to restate such relationship in accordance with frameworks that try to put in more contact both sides of oneself world.