I think contribution from social science is mostly incremental. Cross pollination of methods from pure sciences formed the foundation for many methodological development. Here is a thread.
2# Evolutionary perspective of socio-cultural evolution.
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) August 30, 2020
Though its early proponents like Spencer made racist remarks, the latest variants like study of cumulative cultures, cultural evolution, etc by using methods inspired by biology really seems to have enormous potential.
3# Inspired by pure science physics Saint Simon and Auguste Comte( father of sociology) used the term "social physics” as an analogy for their understanding of study of society.
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) August 30, 2020
I think that was one of the first attempt to make real objective science out of Society.
3b#
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) August 30, 2020
The latest variant of social physics perspective can be found in the work of Alex Pentland of MIT using big data..https://t.co/6S4TMKQ6J6https://t.co/SZ8znPR3he
4a#
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) August 30, 2020
It atunes our attention to the forgotten, the other half, devils advocate. We can see this theory influencing the creation of many many different variants..
6# I think important methodological contribution came from anthropology like ethnography, etc.
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) August 30, 2020
I am not familiar but they have some power tools..
8# Finally the complexity science domain is at the edge of many social sciences too @sfiscience@MelMitchell1
— Kiran Johny (@johnywrites) August 30, 2020
Etc