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|Formulation File=Social level p 43.jpg
Scope of Scientonomy - Social (Barseghyan-2015) (view source)
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|Theory Type=Normative
|Formulation Text=It is implicit in the definition of scientonomy that it should explain changes in the scientific mosaic of accepted theories and employed methods, which are changes at the level of the scientific community. It need not account for changes at the level of the beliefs of individuals.
|Topic=Scope of Scientonomy - Individual and Social
|Authors List=Hakob Barseghyan,
|Formulated Year=2015
|Description=Science is a social enterprise, but Scientonomy focuses on the [[Scientific CommunityMosaic|scientific communitiesmosaic]] consist of individual scientistsaccepted [[Theory|theories]] and employed [[Method|methods]]. In their daily work, individual scientists rely on and formulate [[Theory|theories]] about the object of their research, and use [[Method|methods]] to appraise their theories. Both the theories they believe and the criteria they use to assess them may change over time. Although historians of science have often focused on individual scientists, often those deemed great, like Galileo or Einstein, and the changes in their beliefs as they constructed and assessed theories, [[Scientific Change|changes to the scientific mosaic itself]] happen at the level of the community. Scientonomy thus seeks to focus efforts on the social level of the scientific community rather than on the individual.
|Resource=Barseghyan (2015)
|Page Status=Needs Editing
|Accepted From Day=1
|Accepted From Approximate=No
|Acceptance Indicators=The theory was introduced by Barseghyan in ''The Laws of Scientific Change'' [[CiteRef::Barseghyan (2015)| pp. 43-51]] and became ''de facto'' accepted by the community at that time together with the whole [[The Theory of Scientific Change|theory of scientific change]].
|Still Accepted=Yes
|Accepted Until Approximate=No
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