The two cultures: Natural Sciences and Human Sciences in the 21st century

The article examines the conceptions that Chilean university students have about their representation rind valuation of the sciences, technology and ethics. It presents a systematization of the principal results of interviews done between 2005 and 2008 in the framework of FONDECET projects, The first was a representative sample of 6,219 students frosts ail the Universities of the Council of Rectors and the second a sample of 421 students representative of three state universities: Universidad de Chile, Underside de Concepcion and Universidad de Santiago de Chile, The survey seeks to discaver to what degree precisely the distinction between logical-experimental sciences one acts-humanities is present in student mentality. Sortie preliminary results are presented about the way in which science and technology is sernanticized by students in courses at apposite extremes; technology courses Oil the. one hand and humanities courses On the other.