Regarding the Issue of the Use of Some Terms in the Fields of Academic Studies and Scientific Researches

Abstract

The topic refers to the analysis of the use of some terms in the fields of academic studies and scientific researches. In particular, the term Security was artificially introduced into use in the Georgian language in the 20-30s of the 20th century, when the Georgian language began to be filled with translated technical terms. For example, for this purpose, the Russian term "Техника безопасности" was transferred into Georgian language without translation. According to bezopasnost the term security was translated into Georgian as Security Technique. The context of its use was also determined: technical safety, labor safety, etc. For example, in 1932, at the Mining and Geological Faculty of the Polytechnic Institute, the chair was named "Chair of Safety Techniques and Industrial Sanitation". It should be noted that in “The 2011 classification of UNESCO's qualification framework and fields of study”, the term safety is correctly used in the context of the content of technical activities. For example: code: 0712.3.1 Labor safety and environmental technologies, 0712 Environmental protection technology; 1022.1.1 occupational safety; 103 security services. This technical term, is also included in the field of social sciences, without the content context of the field of study. So here is added the specialty with the name 0312.2.2 Security Studies, unlike English language. So, it is included in the field of social and political sciences (03), whose subject of study is not the field of technical activity, but governance, political principles and practice. In this case, there should be used not a technical term but a traditional, socio-political term for Georgian language, that is the indigenous Georgian scientific term security which considers the appropriate content and context. Accordingly, there should be written "0312.2.2 Security studies". This serious mistake often leads to an absurd situation. In the learning structure of social sciences, due to this field-wide name, sometimes there are invited people, who have been awarded, the academic degree "Doctor of professional safety" (1022.1.1). Their research subject is the technical term "Safety Field” which includes: Provision of working environment with comfortable conditions; Legislative and legal acts of labor hygiene, Industrial sanitation, fire, explosive-, radiation- and electrical safety and so on. The analysis of both terms shows that the content and fields of application of the term security (humanities - code 02; social sciences - code 03, etc.) are essentially different from the content and fields of application of the term security. (Information and communication technologies - code 06; engineering, production and construction - code 07; health care, social welfare - code 09; services - code 10, etc.). However, the content and fields of application of each of them separately are so wide and diverse that their artificial combination under the name of one term, for example, under Security is not appropriate, as it leads to confusion of the fields of activity and specificity, and other misunderstandings.