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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, 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, are to the contrary, radically similar; much like fractals, they are each mutual reflections of their own distinctions.
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, are to the contrary, radically similar; much like fractals, they are each mutual reflections of their own distinctions.
From the Inside Flap
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, 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, are to the contrary, radically similar; much like fractals, they are each mutual reflections of their own distinctions. Abbott extends this concept to social structure and moral action in the book's closing chapters. He demonstrates how self-similar social structures arise, considers their implications for individual experience and solidarity, and then shows how self-similarity makes sense of the debate over politicization in academia; ultimately, Chaos of Disciplines contends that the political wars in the humanities and social sciences involve far less disagreement than we think.
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, are to the contrary, radically similar; much like fractals, they are each mutual reflections of their own distinctions. Abbott extends this concept to social structure and moral action in the book's closing chapters. He demonstrates how self-similar social structures arise, considers their implications for individual experience and solidarity, and then shows how self-similarity makes sense of the debate over politicization in academia; ultimately, Chaos of Disciplines contends that the political wars in the humanities and social sciences involve far less disagreement than we think.
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fractal distinctions, methodological manifold, fractal cycles, constitutive constructionism, ideological constructionism, fractal choices, fractal conception, fractal comparison, personal appearance workers, fractal divisions, personal care workers, generational paradigms, extremal positions, social science historians, fractal manner, social problems literature, basket structures, interactional field, stress literature, fractal system, historical sociologists, quantitative literature, quantitative history, fractal character, constructionist arguments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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fractal distinctions, methodological manifold, fractal cycles, constitutive constructionism, ideological constructionism, fractal choices, fractal conception, fractal comparison, personal appearance workers, fractal divisions, personal care workers, generational paradigms, extremal positions, social science historians, fractal manner, social problems literature, basket structures, interactional field, stress literature, fractal system, historical sociologists, quantitative literature, quantitative history, fractal character, constructionist arguments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Critique of Judgment (Great Books in Philosophy) by Immanuel Kant in Front Matter, page 7, and Back Matter
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- The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five (Canopus in Argos: Archives) by Doris May Lessing on page 227, and Back Matter
- Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy by Michael Polanyi on page 78, and Back Matter
- Other Side by H. Becker on page 67, and Back Matter
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- Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth, and the Human (Science and Cultural Theory) by Barbara Herrnstein Smith on page 126, page 128, and Back Matter
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- In the Mind's Eye: The Visual Impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin (Faux Titre 236) by Alexandra K. Wettlaufer on page 17, and Back Matter
- Time Matters: On Theory and Method (Oriental Institute Publications) by Andrew Abbott in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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