Workshop Proposal: Science as a Vocation: A Centennial Perspective

一个世纪前，德国历史学家和社会科学家马克斯·韦伯做了一个著名的演讲，题目是？科学是一种职业。”讲座概述了科学工作的外部条件。就业保障和环境、薪酬、竞争、晋升机会——并考察了科学的个人经历及其对人类和社会的意义。以韦伯的工作为基准，本次研讨会考察了科学事业的稳定性和变化，以总结已知的情况，确定需要有关工作生活和职业的新知识的领域，并利用我们所知道的建议吸引、激励和安排科学工作的方法，以确保其持续成功。与会人员系统地、比较地分析了今天作为一种职业的科学，以在不同的国家背景下解决其外部条件和内部意义和回报。他们考虑科学系统的制度动态、不断变化的研究支持和绩效模式以及不断发展的科学与社会关系如何改变学术界内外科学职业的形态、内容和吸引力。令人关切的是变化的方向和动力、潜在的政策和方案反应，以及新出现的科学工作、生活和职业形式迎接未来挑战的可能性。

A century ago Max Weber, a German historian and social scientist, gave a celebrated lecture, entitled ?Science as a Vocation."  The lecture provided an overview of the external conditions of scientific work?employment security and circumstances, pay, competition, promotion opportunities--and examined the personal experience of science and its human and societal meanings. With Weber's work as a benchmark, this workshop examines stability and change in scientific careers in order to summarize what is known, to identify areas where new knowledge about work life and career are needed, and to use what we know to suggest ways to attract, motivate, and arrange scientific work that ensure its continued success.    Conference participants systematically and comparatively analyze science as a vocation today, to address both its external conditions and internal meanings and rewards, in diverse national contexts. They consider how the institutional dynamics of science systems, changing modes of research support and performance, and evolving science-society relationships change the shape, content, and attractiveness of scientific careers within academe and outside.  Of concern are the direction and dynamics of change, the potential policy and programmatic responses, and the likelihood that emerging forms of scientific work life and career will meet the challenges that lie ahead.