Naslov
The unbridgeable gap between the natural and social sciences?

Autori
Prpić, Katarina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Beyond the Myths about the Natural and Social Sciences: A Sociological View

Urednik/ci
Prpić, Katarina

Izdavač
Institut za društvena istraživanja

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2009

Raspon stranica
9-19

ISBN
978-953-6218-40-0

Ključne riječi
science wars, natural sciences, social sciences, hard and soft sciences, theories of scientific organizations/fields, complex socio-cognitive structure of science(s)

Sažetak
A comprehensive empirical insight into the socio-cognitive specificities of the natural and social sciences was conceived in order to establish whether the sociological theories of science also built the myths on the great divide between these scientific areas. Instead of unitary and atomised models of science, we have developed a concept of complex socio-cognitive structure of science with some common social and intellectual features but also with the cognitive and social specificities of individual scientific fields. If modified in this direction, the theories of scientific organisations offer a fruitful, and the widest possible hypothetical framework for sociological empirical investigations of science. Such a theoretical approach, a complex methodology (combining both the quantitative and qualitative methods) as well as interdisciplinary perspective were necessary to provide an answer to the initial question whether the differences between these sciences are as deep as the dominant theories and typologies deem them to be.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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