Conocimiento y estructura en la investigación académica : una aproximación desde el análisis de redes sociales

The present article appears as a contribution to the approach of social networks in the field of the high education according to the identification and analyses of “networks of knowledge” recreated from the relationships establish between investigators related to the development of social sciences and groups of mutual support, in the context of the investigation activity. Consist in a “quantitative- reticular” study in the interior of a study department with structured surveys. Our analytical approach it is from the networks theory, and the generation of knowledge in informal organizations of academic studies, putting the emphasis in the importance of the interpersonal relationships for the transmission of the knowledge and the reproduction of the intellectual capital with the corresponding differentiation of positions in the academic social space. The text is structure in three parts. First a revision of the main referring theoretical headlines to the subject is made, such as society of the knowledge, new tendencies in organizacional sociology, the diverse currents relative to the share capital and analysis of network. Secondly, it is carried out a test of hypothesis and reticular data processing, the generation of indicators such as structure and centrality of network, and finally, whe share the conclusions from the data and the complementación of statistical techniques.