El constructivismo social en la ciencia y la tecnología: Las consecuencias no previstas de la ambivalencia epistemológica

Abstract

The article summarises the main currents and contributions of constructivist approach in Science and Technology Studies. This approach portrays science as a collective enterprise. It shows that competing claims about nature indicate that techno-scientific evidence is flexible. The paper considers that epistemological agnosticism or atheism of the sociology of science to be a limitation in the constructivist approach. The paper notes that, paradoxically, in order to benefit from the insights of the constructivist approach an epistemological commitment is needed. This commitment requires admitting that it is possible and necessary to know what evidence is more robust, and what methodologies and theories are more powerful.