Wine and Juice Production in Arkansas AAESBul942 1994 Carl R Dillon, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, University of Arkansas Justin Morris, University Professor, Department of Food Science University of Arkansas Carter Price, Professor Dept. of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology University of Arkansas David Ward Former Research Assistant Dept. of...

This briefly reviews some philosophy of science that might be relevant to simulating the social processes of science. It also includes a couple of examples from the sociology of science because these are inextricable from the philosophy.

The discussion in the sociology of science about the role of model systems in biology provides an invitation to reflect on whether and how they operate in sociology in comparison to other disciplines. This paper shows that sociology too relies on objects of study that receive a disproportionate amount of attention and implicitly come to stand in for a specific class of objects. But, unlike othe...