Cultural Change in Science: From Academic to Post-Academic Science

This paper studies the cultural change in science from academic science to post-academic science by the use of documentary studying and analytical reasoning. The aim of this study is determining the direction of cultural change in science and comparing it with cultural change in society. The knowledge production which surrounds academy has little relationship with the values of society and epistemological norms regulate scientists'' behavior from within the scientific system. But in post-academic science the relationship between science and society operates in the same line with market and government and science produce within the social context and scientists'' behavior controlled by the norms out of the scientific system. So the culture of science has changed because science applied to meet the requirements of market and industry. The result is that contrary to cultural change in society that goes from materialism to post-materialism، cultural change in science moves from post-materialism to materialism.