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%SOCIAL SCIENTISTS' BEHAVIOR 800719
Some scientists are relatively a-social creatures. Their
scientific behavior is individualistic. They work alone
in laboratories, conferring with each other only rarely.
Their research is not a social activity which is engaged
in and celebrated in groups. Their research is not a
spectator activity. Research is not conducted in an arena
where many can watch it. Scientists do not have research
cheerleaders to urge researchers on to greater efforts and
dedication. There are no research pep assemblies for
spectators to take part in. The motivation to engage in
research is not grounded in social activities or desires.
Thus scientist's behavior is not fundamentally a social
reality.
Students learn the a-social behavior from the
scientists who, through their behaviors, teach students
what constitutes usual, and what constitutes unusual,
behavior on the part of scientists. Meaning is given to
unusual behavior, and social behavior is reserved for
unusual situations. Emotional engagement with other
persons is unusual and reserved for elitist situations.
Scientists thus teach their students that only the best
scientists are social creatures. Fellowship is a reward
for the most competitive winners. Common scientists do
not engage in social behavior and remain respectable
scientists. Emotional engagements must be reserved until
after one has become a socially accepted scientist because
of one's achievements. Meanwhile one engages in a-social
behavior in order to earn the right to engage in social
behavior. Students learn that a-social behavior lays the
foundations for social behavior. Thus, a-social behavior
is motivated by the desires to enjoy social behavior. The
student who wants the social recognition of leading
scientists, learns that the way to achieve social
recognition is to engage in a-social research to the
exclusion of social behavior---for there is not enough
time for both.
Needless to say the social scientists do not spend
their time studying the a-social behavior of scientists
who are seeking to fulfill the conditions for social
recognition on the part of those scientists dedicated to
a-social behavior in order to achieve social recognition.
Few reputable scientists have the time, knowledge, or
inclination to engage in social recognition of other
scientists.
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