Online Resource
Chicago : University of Chicago Press
|
Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
ISBN:
9780226001050
,
0226001059
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 259 pages)
DDC:
301/.01
Keywords:
Sozialwissenschaften
;
Philosophie
;
Soziologie
Abstract:
In this vital new study, Andrew Abbott presents a fresh and daring analysis of the evolution and development of the social sciences. Chaos of Disciplines reconsiders how knowledge actually changes and advances. Challenging the accepted belief that social sciences are in a perpetual state of progress, Abbott contends that disciplines instead cycle around an inevitable pattern of core principles. New schools of thought, then, are less a reaction to an established order than they are a reinvention of fundamental concepts. Chaos of Disciplines uses fractals to explain the patterns of disciplines.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index
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