Andrew Abbott

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Chaos of DisciplinesHardcover, 15 February 2001

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Print Length
248 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Date Published
15 Feb 2001
ISBN-10
0226001008
ISBN-13
9780226001005

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In this vital new study, Andrew Abbott presents a fresh and daring analysis of the evolution and development of the social sciences. Chaos of Disciplines reconsiders how knowledge actually changes and advances. Challenging the accepted belief that social sciences are in a perpetual state of progress, Abbott contends that disciplines instead cycle around an inevitable pattern of core principles. New schools of thought, then, are less a reaction to an established order than they are a reinvention of fundamental concepts.
Chaos of Disciplines uses fractals to explain the patterns of disciplines, and then applies them to key debates that surround the social sciences. Abbott argues that knowledge in different disciplines is organized by common oppositions that function at any level of theoretical or methodological scale. Opposing perspectives of thought and method, then, in fields ranging from history, sociology, and literature, are to the contrary, radically similar; much like fractals, they are each mutual reflections of their own distinctions.

Product Details

Author:
Andrew Abbott
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 February 2001
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.67 x 1.98 cm
ISBN-10:
0226001008
ISBN-13:
9780226001005
Language:
English
Location:
Chicago, IL
Pages:
248
Weight:
494.42 gm

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