Las Redes Sociotécnicas en Torno a la Investigación Biotecnológica del Maíz

Abstract

This paper r views the sociotechnical organization of biotechnological research of maize in Mexico. Breaking with three misunderstandings imposed since a long time to the net notion, having to do with actor´s distance, size and number and net´s space, in the text we analyze the sociotechnical organization of maize’s biotechnology using a methodological net notion that allows us to explain the type of connection that establishes between the participant actors of technical phenomena, al well as their grade of connection (intensity) and their time-relation (stability). The results of the methodological net notion applied in 6 laboratories where biotechnology applied to maize in the country; show that the biotechnology research of Mexican´s maize is not affiliated to maize´s object. None the less, there are different models of research organization of maize´s biotechnology that correspond to particular situations defined by the disposition of social, material and symbolic aspects of research´s groups.