Os grupos de pesquisa nos campos da Alimentação e Nutrição e das Ciências dos Alimentos de 2000 a 2008 no Brasil

Abstract

From the thoughts of Bourdieu, we assume that the research groups correspond to agents who work in institutions, building and competing symbolic and material capital, within science. Based on Stengers, when dealing with establishment of specific areas, we identify and describe those who turn to studies on ¨nutrient and food¨ and on food. The empirical set to this directory of the Matches search Fields of CNPq Brazil from 2000 to 2008. Then it is possible to identify by standard procedures, leaving the predominant area of each group of research in Science and Technology Food and 171 groups in the area ¨Nutrition in 2008. Distinctly, we used searches for keywords related to scientific fields screen. We found a number of research groups that is twice described in the CNPq. This mapping allowed a clearer view of some forces in motion in both groups. We highlight the possibility of viewing the research of groups that constitute the social space of knowledge production and knowledge and training in research directed to the human food, which is obscured in the tabulations provided by CNPq. The value of a more interdisciplinary perspective, we understand the need for a review of knowledge areas tabulations, as well as the denomination and composition of decision heads on scientific areas so as to contemplate and favor the institutional setting of ¨Food and Nutrition¨ of scientific area in Brazil