Reducing the number of sociological paradigms through axiomatization

What is it about?

As a wide range of paradigms is often taken as a sign of the prescientific status of a discipline, this paper aims at reducing the number of sociological paradigms. It is shown that, beyond the differences between Simmel's formal sociology and Weber's comprehensive sociology, they are reduceable to the common paradigm of nominalist sociology, of whom we propose the axiomatisation.

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Why is it important?

The reduction of paradigms highlights the continuity between all the programs that claim one or the other of those legacies (actionnism, strategical analysis, relationism, practical interactionnism, network sociology). Such differences don't result from any paradigm incommensurability; they are due to the fact that these research programmes focuse on different facets of the same paradigm.