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Chaos of disciplines / Andrew Abbott.
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,
Year:
2001.
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xvi, 259 pages ; 23 cm
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Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index.
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Monograph
ISBN:
0226001008 9780226001005 0226001016 9780226001012;
Abstract:
pt. 1.

Self-Similarity in Social Science.

1.

The Chaos of Disciplines.

2.

The Duality of Stress.

3.

The Fraction of Construction.

App.

A History of "Social Construction" to 1990.

4.

The
Unity of History.

5.

The Context of Disciplines --

pt. 2.

Two Essays on Self-Similarity.

6.

Self-Similar Social Structures.

App.

Fractal Scales.

7.

The Selfishness of Men.

This work presents analysis of the evolution and development of the social sciences. It reconsiders how knowledge actually changes and advances. Challenging the accepted belief that social sciences are in a perpetual state of progress, this work contends that there is a core set of principles.
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