Broadly conceived disciplines fail to become autonomous sciences.

Evidence

Yet a field so broadly and vaguely conceived does not meet the requirements for becoming an autonomous branch of objective scientific culture. Every science rests upon a conception which permits the abstraction of specified qualities and functions and the methodical observation of their occurrence in concrete things. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 43

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames science as requiring abstraction of specified qualities, a premise behind the whole form/content distinction.
• XREF: connects to: Intellectual paradigm shifts never fully transcend the positions they overturn; Cultural Studies lacks a single origin and instead constitutes multiple unstable formations; Philosophy occupies a contested intellectual middle ground between theology and science — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 40 (+3 more)

Related

• Science became an autonomous value detached from its survival origins (similarity 0.79)
• Science became a productive force and ideology while its reflective disciplines were marginalized. (similarity 0.78)
• Sociology is one method among many, not a master science (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Sociology’s method-driven path has failed to deliver its Enlightenment promises #exemplifies (0.82)
• Cultural Studies lacks a single origin and instead constitutes multiple unstable formations #exemplifies (0.75)
• Intellectual paradigm shifts never fully transcend the positions they overturn #expands (0.70)
• Philosophy occupies a contested intellectual middle ground between theology and science #corroborates (0.60) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 40