The birth and decline of disciplines are critical to science and society. How do scientific disciplines emerge? No quantitative model to date allows us to validate competing theories on the different roles of endogenous processes, such as social collaborations, and exogenous events, such as scientific discoveries. Here we propose an agent-based model in which the evolution of disciplines is gui...

Stephen Turner proposes to provide a philosophical analysis of a family of concepts falling under the general heading of " social practice " : the notion of a tacit set of rules, norms, or presuppositions that inform behavior in a given cultural milieu and that are socially authoritative and causally influential. Examples include: skills of the carpenter, passed on from master to apprentice; kn...

George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 15s. This book sets out to study the extent to which Scientific methods are being and can be used in the eld of the social sciences. The position and reputation of the author thus must command careful attention, and the importance she attaches to the subject is reflected in her choice of a title ; she is perhaps ambitious here, and the result scarcely corresponds to an...

Braithwaite (Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University) (Corresponding author email: [email protected]) © London School of Economics and Political Science 2005 ISSN 0007-1315 print/1468-4446 online. Published by Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA on behalf of the LSE. DOI: 10.1111/j.146...

The American Association for the Advancement of Scientific Apparatus and Laboratory Methods: Science: A Device for Automatically Plotting Changes in Trends in Social Scienice: PROFESSOR WILLIAM Rate of an Interrupted Signal: PROFESSOR ROBERT FIELDING OGBURN .............................. 257 GESELL. A Gas Thermostat: A. J. BAILEY .................. 275 Obituary: Special Articles: Roy Lee Moodie...

The Government of Ghana in 1989 instituted a performance monitoring and evaluation system (PMES) in the public enterprise sector as part of a national effort to improve the performance of that segment of the economy. Among other things, the PMES was designed to provide information to make informed judgment about the performance of these enterprises. The analysis takes the position that 20 years...