Note on the Fragmentation of Disciplines

Steindl, Josef

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Document type:: Works

Collection:: Josef Steindl Collection

Title:: Note on the Fragmentation of Disciplines

Author:: Steindl, Josef

Scope:: Typoskript, 4 Blätter, mit zahlreichen handschriftlichen Anstreichungen

Year of publication:: 1973

Source material date:: [??.04.1973]

Language:: English

JEL Classification:: A12 [Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines] A13 [Relation of Economics to Social Values]

Shelfmark:: S/M.44.3

Rights of use:: Free access In Copyright

Access:: Free access

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.48671/nls.js.AC14446068

3 A similar split has been observed in sociology where the empirical approach of Lazarsfeld and others, and the philosophical or analytical approach have tended to become separate subjects which exclude each other. Perhaps similar tendencies may be found in other social sciences with which I am less familiar (for example, psychology). What are the reasons? On the face of it they have something to do with the organisation of our Uni versities which fosters the autonomy of subjects.*) Hore basically, the fragmentation is a symptom of aimlessness of the social sciences, They are not '•necessary*' for society in the way natural science is; in s ^ far as they do have functions they are pro foundly affected by the divisions of society, or by the wish to retreat from them into an ivory tower. If the social sciences would be faced by common tasks such as engineers and scientists had in the work for the space programme of NASA the isolation and frag- 'It is a general defect of our education that it does not help the student (or pupil) to establish a connection between the things he learns in various subjects. The kind of attitude thus created con tinues naturally in the orientation and organiza tion ot research, and in the establishment of new disciplines.

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