Descripción del proyecto
Los macrodatos aportan información nueva sobre la relación de los conceptos físicos con los comportamientos sociales
Fuerzas, resistencia al cambio, equilibrio y medias o medios son conceptos relacionados con los sistemas y procesos físicos que se aplican tanto a los comportamientos sociales como la gobernanza democrática. Este paradigma de «física social», basado en los macrodatos disponibles en los últimos decenios en relación con los comportamientos de las multitudes, no se ha evaluado en detalle, ni se han analizado los posibles vínculos entre la física y los sistemas sociopolíticos. El equipo del proyecto SOPHY, que cuenta con el apoyo de las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, combinará elementos de historia conceptual («Begriffsgeschichte», en alemán), análisis del discurso foucaultiano, epistemología histórica e historia social para aportar nuevos conocimientos y concienciar sobre las pautas de la sociedad cada vez más basadas en datos.
Objetivo
"""Philosophy of Social Physics"" (SOPHY) intends to explore the impact of physics on the genesis of the social sciences and to define the current use of “Social Physics” in the scientific discourse on big data related to crowd behaviors. The general hypothesis is that physical narratives and notions such as force, resistance, balance, and average have played a crucial role in shaping the concepts we use to think of society since the rise of the Sociological thought in the 19th century, and that in reconstructing the genealogy of the social sciences, the reference to natural sciences cannot be limited to the biological framework.
The goal is to provide new insights into the conceptual paradigms that have been underpinning democratic governance in modern and contemporary societies, thus raising awareness about the rationale of increasingly data-based patterns in social policies. The ""Social Physics"" paradigm has not yet been analysed in depth through a political-philosophical perspective capable of showing the internal logic and history of the concepts employed. Additionally, an analysis of the links between physics-related notions and political and social concepts in the 19th century is still to be outlined. Moreover, there is still no historical, conceptual, and philosophical-political study focusing on the origins of social physics as it is understood and structured today.
SOPHY will use a methodology resulting from an original combination of the tradition of Begriffsgeschichte, Foucauldian discourse analysis, Historical Epistemology and History of social concepts. This methodology will allow to analyse the historical semantics of concepts emphasizing their contingency and their cultural and social constructed nature, while defining at the same time the epistemic structure in which they are produced and used."
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
75270 Paris
Francia