Faith struggles in science: Academic schools as religious sects

IF 1.3 4区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Rationality and Society Pub Date : 2021-04-10 DOI:10.1177/10434631211008635

Florian Follert, F. Daumann

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Particularly in the social sciences, scientific debates can be understood as a special expression of academic discourse and ideally support the progress of knowledge within a discipline. Very often, there are competing academic schools with greatly differing theoretical foundations, as we have seen, for example, in social sciences-especially by the “Methodenstreit” in economics, or the “Positivismusstreit” in Sociology. This paper aims to introduce a new approach to study academic schools and would like to contribute to the literature on the economics of science. To this end, the paper uses the economic theory of religion in general and the economics of sects in particular by transferring the approach to academic schools for the first time. Our results can help to extend the understanding of scientific decision-making and to explain the membership to an academic school. Although the model is presented in relationship to social sciences in general and economics in particular, the basic model of academic schools is generally transferable. JEL Classification: A12, B13, B21, B40, B53, Z12

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科学中的信仰斗争:作为宗教派别的学术学校

特别是在社会科学中，科学辩论可以被理解为学术话语的一种特殊表达，理想情况下支持学科内的知识进步。很多时候，有相互竞争的学术流派，它们有着截然不同的理论基础，例如，我们在社会科学中看到的，特别是经济学中的“方法论”或社会学中的“实证主义”。本文旨在介绍一种研究学术流派的新方法，并希望为科学经济学文献做出贡献。为此，本文运用了一般的宗教经济学理论，特别是教派经济学，首次将这一方法转移到学术流派。我们的研究结果有助于扩展对科学决策的理解，并解释学术学校的成员资格。尽管该模型通常与社会科学特别是经济学有关，但学院的基本模型通常是可转移的。JEL分类：A12、B13、B21、B40、B53、Z12

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Rationality and Society SOCIOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Rationality & Society focuses on the growing contributions of rational-action based theory, and the questions and controversies surrounding this growth. Why Choose Rationality and Society? The trend toward ever-greater specialization in many areas of intellectual life has lead to fragmentation that deprives scholars of the ability to communicate even in closely adjoining fields. The emergence of the rational action paradigm as the inter-lingua of the social sciences is a remarkable exception to this trend. It is the one paradigm that offers the promise of bringing greater theoretical unity across disciplines such as economics, sociology, political science, cognitive psychology, moral philosophy and law.