Summary Of Scientific Community, Structures And Processes By Warren Hagstrom - UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

We have summarized this essential this book by the author. SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY: STRUCTURES AND PROCESSESGoal specificationScientific activity has a functioning and organization similar to that of a society. EACH DISCIPLINE IS DIVIDED INTO DIFFERENT SPECIALTIES. For example, within linguistic studies there are different areas of research: generative grammar, discourse analysis, socio-linguistics, ethnolinguistics, etc.
EACH SPECIALTY IS DISTINGUISHED BY A SET OF PROBLEMS TO WHICH YOU WILL HAVE TO FIND A SOLUTION. Also, among the different areas, there will be some that will be socially considered more important than another. That is, we can speak of hierarchical levels between specialties. Although each subclass of the same discipline acquires autonomy with respect to the others, there is a close relationship between them.