| Titre | Mathématiser les sciences de l'homme ? | |
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| Auteur | André Regnier | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1968, 9-3 | |
| Page | 307-319 | |
| Résumé anglais |
André Regnier : Can one turn the social sciences into a mathematical form?
The representation of phenomena by mathematical models provides powerful means for logical reasoning, but it implies that certain conditions are fulfilled, the kind of conditions which are generally a requirement for all analytic thinking. The first of these is the possession of concepts having a theoretical value. If the applied social sciences require models, that may stay at a semi-empirical level, such is not the case for theoretical social sciences that may very well reach a high level of accuracy without using models nor mathematics. « Generant » models give us the hope that, in the future, those questions will be put into a radically new form. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1968_num_9_3_1403 |
