Abstract

HERRERA SANCHEZ, Alicia; ARENAS DIAZ, Piedad  and  BECERRA ARDILA, Luis Eduardo. The Notions of Social Appropriation of Knowledge in the Scientific Literature and Colombian Public Policy. Trilogía. Cienc. Tecnol. Soc. [online]. 2023, vol.15, n.30, e400.  Epub Feb 26, 2024. ISSN 2145-7778.  https://doi.org/10.22430/21457778.2659.

Social appropriation of knowledge has become an increasingly common term in different academic and political communities, but the literature still shows a lack of clarity and consensus regarding its meaning. To contribute to the understanding of this phenomenon, this article seeks to identify the semantic primes associated with it and determine its essential properties in order to propose a definition of this concept. To establish said definition, this study implemented semantic decomposition and followed the recommendations offered in the scientific literature and Colombian public policy on social appropriation. The sample studied here was composed of 19 definitions taken from articles indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases, as well as other 14 definitions taken from documents on Colombian public policy. As a result, six semantic primes were found to be associated with social appropriation of knowledge: enablers, target entity, object, scope, ends, and implications. In general, the results suggest that there is a fusion between this concept and its impacts; unclear or vague terminology; circularity and lack of conciseness; a conception limited to how, what it is, and what it is for; and five trends regarding the meaning of social appropriation of knowledge.

Keywords : Social appropriation of knowledge; semantic decomposition; public policy-Colombia; systematic literature review.

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