Scientific Communication and Cognitive Codification: Social Systems Theory and SSK (draft version)

[Loet Leydesdorff]

Scientific Communication and  <http://www.leydesdorff.net/ejts06/index.htm>
Cognitive Codification:

Social Systems Theory and the  <http://www.leydesdorff.net/ejts06/index.htm>
Sociology of Scientific Knowledge




Abstract

The intellectual organization of the sciences cannot be appreciated
sufficiently unless the cognitive dimension is considered as an independent
source of variance. Cognitive structures interact and co-construct the
organization of scholars and discourses into research programs, specialties,
and disciplines. In the sociology of scientific knowledge and the sociology
of translation, these heterogeneous sources of variance have been
homogenized a priori in the concepts of practices and actor-networks.
Practices and actor-networks, however, can be explained in terms of the
self-organization of the cognitive code in scientific communication. This
code selects knowledge claims by organizing them operationally in the
various discourses; the claims can thus be stabilized and potentially
globalized. Other symbolically generalized media of communication carry
different functions; for example, markets can also be considered as
self-organizing in terms of setting prices. The globalization of a
knowledge-based economy can be analyzed as a possible consequence of the
self-organization of scientific communication and its sustained interaction
with the self-organization of economic exchange processes.

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Loet Leydesdorff
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
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 <http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126956>
The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society;
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The Challenge of Scientometrics



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