We investigated the interdisciplinary ‘pillars’ of scientific knowledge on which the emerging field of sustainability science is founded, using a bibliometric approach and data from the Web of Science database. To find this scientific basis, we first located publications that represent a relevant part of sustainability science and then extracted the set of best cited publications, which we call...

Do all disciplines fret over the state of their own intellectual and policy-relevant health? Is it a symptom of our hyper-reflexive and confessional times that collective anxiety has to be rehearsed over the track record, and present and projected performance of a group of scholars? Medical sociology’s lengthy reflections on the state of its own practice are recognizable as part of a more gener...

Epistemological sociology or "sociology of knowledge" as part the science focuses on study social knowledge, i.e., linguistic, cultural, religious and political knowledge common in a society at given historical period At same time, Social reflects individuals' thoughts personalities different ways, while time being reflected their outcomes inventions inventions. Cognitive-literary one dimension...