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Scientific culture: Great expectations. While we typically think of culture as defined by geography or ethnicity (e.g., American culture, Chinese culture), the term also applies to the practices, behaviors, and expectations of smaller groups of people — whether they’re a gang of skateboarding youth or the employees of a high-powered ...
Nov 4, 2020 · A cultural trait (or variant; Richerson and Boyd, 2005, pp. 62–64) is understood here as anything that is—at least to some degree—socially transmitted or motivated, including beliefs, knowledge,...
- Theiss Bendixen
- tb@cas.au.dk
- 2020
Sep 26, 2008 · Science consists in progress by innovation. Scientists, however, are committed to all kinds of traditions that persist or recur in society regardless of intellectual and institutional changes.
- Joseph Mali
- 1989
Sep 1, 2018 · 1. Culture and scientific culture. Faced with the external world, humans generally direct the process of intellectual creation in two directions. One is thoroughly exploring the inherent development laws of things; and the other is abstracting data from the external forms of things.
- Chunfa Wang
- 2018
Sep 1, 2015 · Scientists can introduce novel chemicals and chemical relationships (innovation) or delve deeper into known ones (tradition). They can consolidate knowledge clusters or bridge them. The aggregate distribution of published strategies remains remarkably stable.
- Jacob G. Foster, Andrey Rzhetsky, James A. Evans
- 2015
Aug 13, 2004 · A collection of Kuhn’s essays in the philosophy and history of science was published in 1977, with the title The Essential Tension taken from one of Kuhn’s earliest essays in which he emphasizes the importance of tradition in science.
About the author (1983) Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist, is regarded as the founder of quantum mechanics, which describes atomic structure in mathematical terms. During the 1920s quantum...
