Defining disciplinary research in the social sciences
Does the framework of "disciplinary matrix" work well in studying different research communities in the social sciences? Does sociology consist of distinct "paradigm-driven" sub-disciplines? Kuhn's theory of paradigms doesn't work very well in the social sciences, which requires instead eclectic theories, piecemeal explanations, and a patchwork of inquiries at a range of levels of description.
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Understanding Society · Defining disciplinary research in the social sciencesThe “historical turn” in the philosophy of science in the 1960s and 1970s gave most of its attention to the development of the physical sciences — especially physics itself. (See …