章节目录
Contents......Page 8 Preface......Page 10 Prologue......Page 16 Part 1 Self-Similarity in Social Science......Page 18 1 The Chaos of Disciplines......Page 20 2 The Duality of Stress......Page 51 3 The Fraction of Construction......Page 77 Appendix: A History of “Social Construction” to 1990......Page 106 4 The Unity of History......Page 108 5 The Context of Disciplines......Page 138 Part 2 Two Essays on Self-Similarity......Page 172 6 Self-Similar Social Structures......Page 174 Appendix: Fractal Scales......Page 203 7 The Selfishness of Men......Page 214 Epilogue......Page 250 References......Page 254 Index......Page 270
内容简介
In this 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, and then applies them to key debates that surround the social sciences. Abbott argues that knowledge in different disciplines is organized by common oppositions that function at any level of theoretical or methodological scale. Opposing perspectives of thought and method, then, in fields ranging from history, sociology and literature, become radically similar, much like fractals, they are each mutual reflections of their own distinctions.
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