The exclusion and communication of science and technology in a new social contract of science

Abstract

The present article makes, from a general perspective, a review of the publications on the advances of science and technology concerning the function that communication fulfills within the so-called the new social contract of science, thus intending to give an answer to the causes that have generated the rift between non-expert publics and scientific activities, and how the communication of science has contributed to it –purposefully or not–, by not taking into account how incomprehensible is scientific language for most social groups. Moreover, the article analyses the importance of the participation of people as an instrument that contributes to the democratization of the access to science and technology, and, at the same time, adds to the constitution of social subjects as active subjects, so that they can reach the much-desired social inclusion, in opposition to the so-far marked social exclusion.

Keywords

• Social contract
• communication
• science
• technology
• social exclusion
• public participation
• deficit model