La institucionalización de la Ciencia en Mendoza y la región de Cuyo (1948-1957)

El caso del Departamento de Investigaciones Científicas (DIC) de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo

Resumo

The institutions show the process of the institutionalization of science as a crystallization of practices, activities and scientific discourses. They put into play the power relations involved, determine working methods, knowledge transfer modes and purposes of scientific activity, to constitute expressions of economic, social and ideological structures. This paper proposes, from documentary sources, testimonies and interviews, to describe the activities of the Department of Scientific Investigation (DIC) of the National University of Cuyo, and to analyze their implications for the regional process of the institutionalization of science between 1948 and 1957.