Investigating reality in order to transform it: The Colombian experience
Investigating reality in order to transform it: The Colombian experience
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研究现实以改变它:哥伦比亚的经验
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1979
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O. F. Borda
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O. F. Borda
There exist relatively few occasions, in the course of a lifetime, which provide the oppor? tunity to confront processes of radical, social transformation. As a generation, it is our privilege to live this process today, and to do so with the advantages and disadvantages offered by contemporary development. It is also our responsibility, as members of a scien? tific community, to know how to interpret this process of change and derive from it the adequate information necessary for under? standing and catalysing this transformation so that we may help to construct the future. Now to combine life experience which has become a part of us with what is rational in these processes of radical change constitutes the basis of the problem at hand. We encounter an ontological problem, one of general con? cepts, which cannot be ignored. In particular, we must ask what demands has the reality of change made upon us with respect to our role as "scientists"; we live, for better or worse, not only as men and women but as individuals "qualified" to examine and criticize society. The special tools of our trade have provided the frames of reference with which successive