The construction of scientific knowledge: the process, the activity and the scientific communication in a research laboratory

Abstract

Research report, that shows the daily scientific activity in the Research Laboratory in Bioinorganic Chemistry of Federal University of Santa Catarina. The scientists’ actions were observed because it is regarded that knowledge, as a product, is affected by the conditions of a particular context. Using as inspiration the Laboratory Studies of the New Science Sociology, and, consequently adopting an anthropologic perspective, the focus of the survey aims at two questions: How the scientific facts built in the laboratory and how does the scientific communication act in this construction?.