Abstract

VILLAMIZAR, Carlos. The knowledge-power strutures in Venezuelan University Research. Investigación y Postgrado [online]. 2008, vol.23, n.3, pp.155-178. ISSN 1316-0087.

The aim of this study is to determine the underlying knowledge-power relationship in structures associated with research and knowledge production of the University Research Subsystem (SIU) through the university perspective of eight (8) exceptional witnesses (UPELand UNET). A referential frameworkis drafted as a result of the critical analysis of the points of view on knowledge: contextual, theoretical, ontological, epistemological and methodological. As regards to the context, the object of study is located in the field of university-system and the research subsystem, together with the bodies that define the knowledge-power relationship. The theoretical part includes the categories of knowledge, power, thought and the ready-structure theory which supports and interprets from their points of view the object of research. The research takes a dynamic ontological, constructed, multiple and complex stand. It applies the qualitative approach of the phenomenologic and hermeneutical type. It locates underlying structures such as the collective unconscious and social representation which support the conceptual and theoretical substrate that foster change as far as organization is concerned by means of regaining the world of life, a liberation ethics and a liberating axiological look.

Keywords : knowledge-power Structures; University Tought; Research Subsystem; Change Management.