Zeitschrift für Soziologie · 1979 · 38 citations · 0 references
EducationSociologyNature Of SciencePhilosophy Of ScienceScience PolicyScience-technology-society RelationshipsScientific ChangeScientific KnowledgeSocial ScienceCultural Dimensions Of ScienceDifferentiationDisciplinary DifferencesScientific SocietiesSocial Dimensions Of ScienceSocial Epistemology Of ScienceSociological ModelStructural Differentiation
Abstract The article tries to make use of the sociological concepts of “differentiation” and “integration” for the analysis of the social system of science in modern societies. It studies (1) the applicability of the classical concepts of the theory of structural differentiation in doing research on disciplinary differentiation in science; tries (2) to identify several integrative mechanisms which are operative in science and discusses (3) some patterns of interrelation between “cognitive innovations” and “structural differentiation” in science.