The Harvard “Pareto circle”

Heyl, Barbara Sherman

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“…(Heyl, 1968). Henderson himself wrote on science in ways that prefigure Kuhn's notion of paradigm, using the notion of 'conceptual schemes' (Henderson, 1970(Henderson, [1941).…”

Section: The 'Classical' Sociological Traditionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Merton's `Norms' in Political and Intellectual Context

Turner

2007

Journal of Classical Sociology

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Merton's two papers on the norms of science were written in a period of intense political activity in science, and responded to this context, using conceptual tools from classical sociology and Harvard thinking of the time. The basic reasoning was Weberian: science and politics each had a different ethos. One target was the Left view of science as a model for society. Another was the view of the American Left that complex societies required regulation, but that science should be free of control. Merton pictured science as already intensely policed, but threatened by the conflict between its special ethos and potential democratic demands, and requiring protection. This was a 'liberal' argument, but Merton used the language of the Left to present it.

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“…(Heyl, 1968). Henderson himself wrote on science in ways that prefigure Kuhn's notion of paradigm, using the notion of 'conceptual schemes' (Henderson, 1970(Henderson, [1941).…”

Section: The 'Classical' Sociological Traditionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Merton's `Norms' in Political and Intellectual Context

Turner

2007

Journal of Classical Sociology

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“…Educated as a mathematician at Harvard University, Yale University and at the École Normale Supé rieure in Paris around 1900, Wilson was one the "most active" members among the American mathematical research community during the first decade of the 1900s (Fenster and Parshall 1994 Heyl 1968). 6 E. Wilson to L. Henderson, Jan. 10, 1933 (PEBW, 21).…”

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Edwin B. Wilson and the Rise of Mathematical Economics in America, 1920-1940

Carvajalino

2017

SSRN Journal

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“…Drawing on ideas from thermodynamics, Samuelson depicted a mathematical representation of economics that privileged analogies with physics, biology, and thermodynamic systems at or near equilibrium. Samuelson was an occasional member of Harvard's famous 'Pareto Circle' -named after the Italian sociologist/economist Vilfredo Pareto -which promulgated a mechanical-system model of society as a set of mutually interdependent and interrelated components tending towards equilibrium, and which had a significant influence on the development of the social sciences during the 20 th century (Cot, 2011;Heyl, 1968;Isaac, 2010;Keller, 1984).…”

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RestoringPhronesisand practice: marketing’s forgotten P’s

Kavanagh

2014

Journal of Historical Research in Marketing

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution of marketing’s philosophical conversation over the past 120 years, focusing on the emergent meaning of the notion that marketing should become more “scientific”. Design/methodology/approach – This paper focuses on the US academic marketing literature, primarily journal articles and books published in the first half of the 20th century. Findings – The Aristotelian distinction between techné, epistemé and phronesis provides a rich basis for framing philosophical discussion in marketing, and should supplant the art-science debate and Anderson’s distinction between science1 and science2. Prior to 1959, the marketing journals provided a forum for phronesis, though this diminished as the academic marketing community largely abandoned the inductive, contextual approach in favour of a deductive, “scientific” methodology. The Ford Foundation played an important role in effecting this change. Practical implications – The paper highlights the importance of forums where practitioners can reflect on the ethical and social implications of their practices and then work to enhance these practices for the greater social good. Social implications – Questions the value of distinctions between marketing theorists and practitioners and the consequential focus of marketing journals. Originality/value – Advances the concept of phronesis in the marketing literature and distinguishes it from epistemé, which has dominated academic marketing discourse over the past 60 years.

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The Harvard “Pareto circle”

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Merton's `Norms' in Political and Intellectual Context

Merton's `Norms' in Political and Intellectual Context

Edwin B. Wilson and the Rise of Mathematical Economics in America, 1920-1940

RestoringPhronesisand practice: marketing’s forgotten P’s

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