Brief About The Controvesial Of Scientific Ethos In The Academe

In nineteen forty-two, Merton systematically articulated his theory of scientific ethos, he said communism universalism disinterestedness and organized skepticism constituted the norms of science, however, this theory arouse a lot of controversial, then how many controversial points appeared ? what is the causes of the controversial? How to treat these controversial in a objective and right way? This paper try to answer these questions in a hesitative manner.The controversial points are summarized as the following: whether these norms can impose real effects on the scientists or not; can these norms singly insure the prosperity of science; whether these norms peculiar owned by the science; can these norms fully describe the real picture of science; whether the of norms are convincing.The paper tries to analyze the reasons why the theory of scientific norms arise a lot of controversial, in addition, the paper describes the limitations of the theory with the perspective of SSK. in the last chapter, the paper propose that we should rethink of the theory in new perspective as the practice of science the philosophy of science and the sociology of science have developed to a new stage.