Activities ⁽³⁾

Social sciences are shaped by a permanent debate about the relative role of structure and agency in producing human behavior. On one hand, it is undeniable that social roles, cultural norms, linguistic categories and institutions play some role in producing the patterns of social activity.

The increasing scale of human activity has led to a dramatic impact on the ecological condition of life on Earth, mostly notably (but not exclusively) through the increase in average temperature driven by the massive burning of fossil fuel and deforestation. This led some researcher…

Contemporary research institutions find their roots in the cooptation of scholastic guilds by the Latin Church in the medieval era, giving rise to the first Universities. The interest of those institutions directly echoed the interests of elites at the time: law, theology, arts and (in…