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Comparing the epistemologies of scientific disciplines in two distinct domains: modern physics versus social sciences. II: Epistemology and knowledge characteristics of the ‘new’ social sciences
Author(s) -
van Gigch John P.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
systems research and behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 1092-7026
DOI - 10.1002/sres.466
Subject(s) - epistemology , social epistemology , physical science , sociology , relation (database) , behavioural sciences , sociology of scientific knowledge , social science , philosophy of science , biological sciences , epistemology of wikipedia , philosophy , computer science , biology , computational biology , database
Part II is devoted to the epistemology and knowledge characteristics of the ‘new’ social sciences. Part II also explains epistemological and methodological differences and similarities among scientific disciplines such as the physical sciences and the social sciences and their respective fields of application. Part I treated the same topics in relation to the physical sciences, represented by modern physics. (See Systems Research and Behavioral Science , 19: 199–209 (2002)). Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.