Lakatos and trps in social science

Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:17:44 -0400
chris chase-dunn (chriscd@jhu.edu)

Nikolai Rozov asked on October 11 about applications of Imre Lakatos's
idea of 'theoretical research programs' in social science. I had
misplaced the following reference but now I have found it:

Joseph P. Berger and Morris Zelditch, Jr.
_Theoretical Research Programs: Studies in the Growth of Theory_
Stanford University Press, 1993.

This book presents several trps in sociology and political science.

Tom Hall and I have used Lakatos's basic strategy in our explication of
the comparative world-systems approach, forthcoming in January or
February from Westview Press -- _Rise and Demise: the Comparative Study
of World-Systems_.

chris chase-dunn