Classifying Science: Phenomena, Data, Theory, Method, PracticeSpringer Science & Business Media, 3. 11. 2007 - Počet stran: 288 Classification is the essential first step in science. The study of science, as well as the practice of science, will thus benefit from a detailed classification of different types of science. In this book, science - defined broadly to include the social sciences and humanities - is first unpacked into its constituent elements: the phenomena studied, the data used, the theories employed, the methods applied, and the practices of scientists. These five elements are then classified in turn. Notably, the classifications of both theory types and methods allow the key strengths and weaknesses of different theories and methods to be readily discerned and compared. Connections across classifications are explored: should certain theories or phenomena be investigated only with certain methods? What is the proper function and form of scientific paradigms? Are certain common errors and biases in scientific practice associated with particular phenomena, data, theories, or methods? The classifications point to several ways of improving both specialized and interdisciplinary research and teaching, and especially of enhancing communication across communities of scholars. The classifications also support a superior system of document classification that would allow searches by theory and method used as well as causal links investigated. |
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... social sciences, plus the humanities; the logic of such a definition is explored in chapter 5 – I wondered if there might be some way to classify scientific methods and theories as well. The same goals would be served by such ...
... Social Studies of Science. Classification, it is often noted, is the first step in science. Yet scholars of science lack a good classification of “types of science”. This book provides such a classification, and explores the strengths ...
... Social Scientific Theories” Current Sociology 51:1, Jan, 2003. Some of this material, plus key segments of chapters 4 and 7, was contained in “Classifying Scientific Theories and Methods,” Knowledge Organization 30:1, 2003. A summary of ...
... Social Studies of Science, Association for Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, and Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics. I thank all of the conference organizers for these opportunities to present this material; I received ...
... social” science.2 Such distinctions will be addressed in later chapters. For 1 Mukherjee (1983) notes that scientists classify that which is perceived but whose constitution and causes are not fully comprehended. “Types of science” thus ...
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Classifying Phenomena and Data | 23 |
Classifying Theory | 51 |
Classifying Method | 99 |
Classifying Practice | 155 |
Drawing Connections Across | 199 |
Classifying Scientific Documents | 217 |
Concluding Remarks | 239 |
References | 269 |
Index 279 | 278 |
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