Complexity Sciences

Social scientists have proposed several concepts to give account of the way scientific life organizes. By studying “complexity sciences” – established in mid-1980s by “Santa Fe Institute” New Mexico (USA) –, present article addresses interdisciplinary studies and emergent domains literature proposing a new concept describe this domain. Drawing from Bourdieusian sociology science STS, “scientific platform” is defined as meeting point between different specialties, which, on basis flexible common ground, pursue together shared or parallel socio-epistemic objectives. Most specialties inscribed complexity suffer relative marginality their disciplinary field. The term “platform” refers what heterogeneous members collective mutualize, both cognitive social terms, order exist expand.