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The author submitted the following comments: Response to: N. Macintosh - Your paper opens the important problem of autonomy of scientific work in both aspects, in the carrying out of scientific investigations as well as in the presentation and publication of scientific research. This concerns a dangerous phenomenon, spreading in many countries, the essence of which is that the prevailing structure, via the 'dictates' of editing and reviewing, controls the scientific community...;Response to M. Barrachina, S. Gago and V. Ripol - My commentary refers to an ethical dilemma. Contemporary sociological behavioral sciences that they are engaged solely in the gathering of data on man and his world, thereby excluding evaluative premises and manipulation. This is probably the reason why the ethical dimension has long been ignored in the scientific tradition of empirical research. On the other hand, under the condition of global capitalism, it is difficult to say, as M. Parker (1999) has pointed out, what that is and whether it is possible to have a uniform ethical codex when we speak of the world of organisations...; Response to C. Poullaos - The constituiting of a network of capitalism in the context of globality and the creation of Empire places ethical questions on the daily agenda in the investigation of social phenomena more than has ever been the case before. It seems to me that in the analysis of the characteristics of globalisation, it would be constructive to recall A. Giddens' (1987) differentiation between control and dialogue models. I believe that it is necessary to break with the 'endogenic models' of social organisation because such models are no longer suitable in the global world in which we live. The dialogue model changes the relation of scientific and political goals in such a way that priority is given to the processes of investigation and thus the possibility is eliminated for political decisions to determine the character of scientific investigation... ; Response to B. Verstegen - Only those societies that are in a position to modify their institutions according to the accelerated social changes can claim a right to the future. From this, the conclusion follows that the degree to which a society is open to scientific analysis is also degree of its flexibility and openness...

Editing; reviewing; control; scientific community.

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