Una medición de la institucionalización del programa de Ciencia Política de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali: prolegómenos a una sistematización de la medición de la institucionalización en programas de Ciencia Política
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2026
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Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali
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La Ciencia Politica es una disciplina del conocimiento que carga en si misma desde su constitucion formal una serie de tensiones intemas, iniciando por el cuestionamiento propio de su origen, su objeto de estudio, su utilidad y su cientificidad dentro de las Clencias Sociales y juridicas y, a su vez, frente a las disciplinas comprendidas como Ciencias duras. Dentro de estas discusiones se encuentran los estudios sobre institucionalización, de los cuales se desprenden multitud de enfoques, acercamientos, perspectivas y debates en la literatura. La investigación aqui realizada se centra en realizar un análisis institucional del programa de Ciencia Política de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali (PUJC) dividido en dos macro bloques: por un lado realiza una historiografia del programa desde sus inicios con base en la historia oral de los directores que ha tenido el programa; por otro lado, se construye un instrumento de medicion de institucionalizacion sin perjuicio valorativo aplicado al estado actual del programa y cuya base teórica será el poco explorado (y por tanto exploratorio en esta rama de estudios) Materialismo Filosófico de Gustavo Bueno. Los hallazgos sugieren que el programa de Clencia Politica de la PUJC ha alcanzado un grado maduro de institucionalización disciplinar mediante adaptaciones constantes materializadas en reformas curriculares, modificaciones organizacionales y vinculaciones institucionales que son demandadas por su propio contexto en el cual está inmerso y en perpetua tensión.
Political Science is a discipline of knowledge that, since its formal constitution, has carried within itself a series of internal tensions, beginning with questions regarding its own origin, its object of study, its utility, and its scientific status within the social and legal sciences, as well as in relation to disciplines understood as hard sciences. Within these debates are studies on institutionalization, from which a multitude of approaches, perspectives, and discussions in the literature have emerged. The research conducted here focuses on carrying out an institutional analysis of the Political Science program at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali (PUJC), divided into two macro blocks: on the one hand, it develops a historiography of the program from its beginnings, based on the oral histories of its directors; on the other hand, it constructs a measurement instrument of institutionalization, without value judgments, applied to the program's current state, whose theoretical foundation is the relatively underexplored (and therefore exploratory within this field of study) Philosophical Materialism of Gustavo Bueno. The findings suggest that the Political Science program at PUJC has reached a mature level of disciplinary institutionalization through continuous adaptations materialized in curricular reforms, organizational changes, and institutional linkages demanded by the very context in which it is embedded and with which it remains in constant tension.
Political Science is a discipline of knowledge that, since its formal constitution, has carried within itself a series of internal tensions, beginning with questions regarding its own origin, its object of study, its utility, and its scientific status within the social and legal sciences, as well as in relation to disciplines understood as hard sciences. Within these debates are studies on institutionalization, from which a multitude of approaches, perspectives, and discussions in the literature have emerged. The research conducted here focuses on carrying out an institutional analysis of the Political Science program at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali (PUJC), divided into two macro blocks: on the one hand, it develops a historiography of the program from its beginnings, based on the oral histories of its directors; on the other hand, it constructs a measurement instrument of institutionalization, without value judgments, applied to the program's current state, whose theoretical foundation is the relatively underexplored (and therefore exploratory within this field of study) Philosophical Materialism of Gustavo Bueno. The findings suggest that the Political Science program at PUJC has reached a mature level of disciplinary institutionalization through continuous adaptations materialized in curricular reforms, organizational changes, and institutional linkages demanded by the very context in which it is embedded and with which it remains in constant tension.