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RESUMEN: El artículo tiene como objetivo revisar algunos aspectos del proceso de institucionalización de las ciencias sociales en Colombia, para ello aborda como en los procesos de maduración de estas se han dado condiciones de interdisciplinariedad, así como la manera en que las políticas públicas de ciencia y tecnología han presionado el acceso a determinas reglas; que si bien han generado procesos de internacionalización, también han puesto en crisis la autonomía respecto a lo que se considera conocimiento científico social. Por ello se termina con una reflexión sobre la necesidad de reflexionar continuar reflexionando sobre lo que se entiende como objetividad de las ciencias sociales frente a tal proceso de institucionalización. ; ABSTRACT: The objective of this article is to inspect some aspects about the institucionalization process of the Social Sciences in Colombia, for this it takes the way in how the processes of maduration of those have been given in interdisciplinarity conditions, just like the way how the public politics of science and technology have pushed the access to certain rules that have generated processes of internacionalization and that have placed in crisis the autonomy respect to what its considered social scientis knowledge. Finally, the article ends with a reflection about the need of take in consideration what its known like Social Science objectivity in front to the institucionalization process.

Cover -- The Realist Image in Social Science -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Possibility of Realism -- 2 Epistemology and Levels of Discourse -- 3 Realism and Validity Claims -- 4 Causality, Acausality and the Implicate Order -- 5 Behaviour and Social Ontology -- 6 The Language of Social Analysis -- 7 The Prospects for Realism -- Appendix: The Philosophical Bogeyman -- References -- Index.

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Résumé Les rapports que les chercheurs africains en sciences sociales entretiennent avec le passé et le présent de leurs sociétés postcoloniales ont mené à l'impasse puisque ces sociétés, aujourd'hui plus encore qu'hier, sont sous influence de l'impérialisme des images, des idées, des concepts et des idéologies qui colonisent leurs esprits au moyen de la violence symbolique des médias transnationaux ou globaux. Décoloniser les sciences sociales africaines reviendrait à rompre avec les dispositifs d'exercice de cette violence symbolique. Mais une rupture postcoloniale avec l'anthropologie coloniale paraît impossible quand on sait, par exemple, que cette forme de savoir est mobilisée aujourd'hui par des chercheurs africains comme une arme de guerre civile, sous prétexte de défendre des cultures et des patrimoines.

On décrit ici les impasses du particularisme en sciences sociales (contextualisme, narrativisme, casuistique, pragmatisme, rejet de la distinction fait/valeur). Le causalisme et le généralisme ne sont pas dépassés.

I. General Methodology -- A New Epitheoretical Analysis of Social Theories; A Reconstruction of their Background Knowledge including a Model of Statistical Decision Theory -- Theories and Phenomena -- Partial Interpretation and Microeconomics -- The Foundation of Science on Cognitive Mini-Models, with Applications to the German Methodenstreit and the Advent of Econometrics -- II. Methods for Laying the Foundations of Social Systems and Social Structures -- Systems of Social Exchange -- The Concept of Social Structure -- Societies and Social Decision Functions -- Honing Occam's Razor: A General System Theory Perspective on Social Science Methodology -- III. Vagueness, Imprecision and Uncertainty in Social Laws and Forecasts -- Toward Fuzzy Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences -- Evolutionary Laws in the Social Sciences -- Methodological Analysis of Imprecision in the Assessment of Personal Probabilities -- The Necessity, Sufficiency and Desirability of Experts as Value Forecasters -- Rational Choice Models and Self-Fulfilling and Self-Defeating Prophecies -- IV. Methodology of Statistics and Hypothesis Testing -- Statistical Probabilities: Single Case Propensities vs. Long-Run Frequencies -- Variety of Objects as a Parameter for Experimentation: An Extension of Carnap's Inductive Logic -- The Strategic Combination Argument -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.