GM에 대한 사회과학분야의 연구동향

The Research Trends of Genetical Modification in the Areas of the Social Science

Technological innovation policies have to promote social and economic environment which make people easily to accept new technologies, as well as to develop new technology. In the sense that scientific technology should progress together with society, this study presents the current state of the researches on GM and indicates the direction of future studies. 253 articles from 115 academic journals are categorized by the differences in academic disciplines, contexts, methodologies, and classified by the time and researchers. The research findings are summarized as follows: (1) 49.41% of the total articles are concentrated in the area of law. On the other hand, the articles from the areas of public relations, education, and public policy are relatively scarce. (2) The contexts of most articles are related to laws and institutions. (3) Over 90% of them were produced during the last 10 years. (4) Methodologically speaking, all the articles(124) of the law area belong to the literature research. Whereas 42.59% of the economic area were belonged to the empirical research, most articles of public administration could be classified as with the mixed research methodologies. (5) While most work organizations of the researchers centers on universities, the researchers highly ranked by the number of articles belongs to various research institutes.