Dissertation Research: Practicing the Biosciences in Vietnam: Local Culture, Market Forces, Global Science

本论文的研究项目是集中其经验的关注，在科学和技术研究不足的地理和文化领域。 在这样做的过程中，它试图促进科学的全球性/地方性的理论阐述，并在转型社会和知识和文化的全球化的分析中谈到科学研究之外的理论问题。 更具体地说，它是对越南生物科学的解释性研究，研究当地文化，组织环境和全球背景。 它涉及科学实践和文化的社会研究中的理论问题，包括社会主义国家市场转型的分析，以及全球化和后殖民理论。 具体的研究问题是：1）越南科学家如何诠释和判断好科学的含义和科学知识的价值？2)供资要求和机制如何影响科研机构的组织和个人的科学事业？3)越南科学家以何种方式将其实践导向“普遍”科学的理念，与外国科学界的具体联系如何影响其研究？ 项目设计有三个组成部分：在三个生物科学研究所进行人种学观察;与科学家进行广泛的两阶段录音口述历史;收集和分析档案、组织、政策文件和访谈中的补充数据。

This dissertation research project is focusing its empirical attention to a geographical and cultural area underresearched in science and technology studies. In doing so, it seeks to contribute to a theoretical elaboration of globality/locality in science and speaks to theoretical issues outside science studies in the analyses of transition societies and the globilization of knowledge and culture. More specifically, it is an interpretive study of the biosciences in Vietnam, examining local culture, organizational environment, and global context. It addresses theoretical issues in the social studies of scientific practice and culture, incorporating analysis of market transition in socialist countries, and globilization and postcolonial theory. The specific research questions are: 1) How do Vietnamese scientists interpret and judge the meaning of good science and the value of scientific knowledge? 2) How do funding requirements and mechanisms affect the organization of scientific research institutes and individual scientific careers? 3) In what ways do Vietnamese scientists orient their practice to the idea of `universal` science, and how do specific connections with foreign scientific communities affect their research? The project design has three components: ethnographic observation at three bioscience research institutes; extensive, two-stage, tape-recorded oral histories with scientists; and collection and analysis of supplementary data form archives, organizations, policy documents, and interviews.