Is ecological economics mainly a natural science or a social science? Ecologists may start from a natural science perspective emphasizing positivism and value-neutrality as their theory of science. When looking for similarly inclined scholars in the social sciences they will find friends among neoclassical economists. But theory of science is not limited to positivism and economics is much more...

INTRODUCTION: METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL ARGUMENT Thomas Kuhn's concept of 'paradigm" has attracted a lot of attention from sociologists and historians of science. In particular, some recent work has involved the search for groups of scientists which are taken to be the social analogue of this idea. I will argue here that the boundaries of those 'social circles' of scientists which have bee...

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Aristotelian, or non-Platonist, realism holds that mathematics is a science of the real world, just as much as biology or sociology are. Where biology studies living things and sociology studies human social relations, mathematics studies the quantitative or structural aspects of things, such as ratios, or patterns, or complexity, or numerosity, or symmetry. Let us start with an example, as Ari...

Gabriel Vélez-Cuartas (PhD in Social & Political Sciences) is an Associate professor of sociology and Director of the Research Center in Social Science and Humanities at the University of Antioquia in Colombia. He belongs to the research group Social Networks & Actors subscribed to National System of Science Technology & Innovation in Colombia. He has worked in collaboration with the team of th...

Community structure is common in various real-world networks. Methods or algorithms for detecting such communities in complex networks have attracted great attention in recent years. From a broad perspective of understanding community detection, the study of community structure in networks has a long history. It is closely related to the ideas of graph partitioning in graph theory and computer ...

This article explores the profoundly gendered nature of the split between the disciplines of economics and sociology that took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emphasizing implications for current efforts to bring the fields more closely together. Drawing on historical documents and feminist studies of science, it investigates the gendered processes underlying the divergence of ...