{"id":22571,"date":"2012-11-13T14:49:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T14:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thepovertyoftheory-fornices-its-true-i\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:36:20","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T04:36:20","slug":"thepovertyoftheory-fornices-its-true-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thepovertyoftheory-fornices-its-true-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-22571 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/thepovertyoftheory-fornices-its-true-i\/attachment\/22572\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_md4mwgWsur1r8ijyto1_1280-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thepovertyoftheory.tumblr.com\/post\/35627365222\/its-true-i-study-biology-and-end-up-doing\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">thepovertyoftheory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/fornices.tumblr.com\/post\/35207131802\">fornices<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s true. I study Biology and end up doing Chemistry. I study Chemistry and end up doing Physics. It all comes down to Maths in the end.<\/p>\n<p>No honestly, I\u2019ve been using concepts from my Further Maths A2 and Physics GCSE classes to help me understand concepts in Chemistry and Biology at degree level. I was thinking of molecular orbital theory with complex numbers, and now I\u2019m doing mechanics and quantum mechanics in Chemistry. Ok this was a little rant, but essentially Maths is the purest way of understanding the world around us. None of that imprecise wordy mumbo-jumbo that\u2019s always misconstrued.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Something about this XKCD comic has always vexed me. \u00a0While it at one and the same time jokes about the hierarchy of the sciences it is regularly posted on tumblr as a\u00a0legitimate\u00a0ordering. \u00a0It drips with the positivism that all can be recursively deferred to a subject higher up (there is no movement in the opposite direction), as if the world can be so neatly\u00a0compartmentalized and ordered. \u00a0As if each discipline not only deals with something \u2018separate\u2019 but rather also is an extended application of another towards a new object. \u00a0What it leaves out, however, is the relationship to the humanities and their implication in this apparent ordering.<\/p>\n<p>It was only this morning in rereading Homo Academicus I found why it vexes me:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/67907162\/homo%20academicus.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In this figure Bourdieu\u00a0summarizes\u00a0the division between theoretical (the pure) and empirical (the impure) and how these forms of academic classification doubly subordinate sociology. \u00a0It covers not only the science side as done by the XKCD comic but incorprotes consideration of the humanities &#8211; or in this case the \u2018arts and social sciences\u2019 in line with how the\u00a0faculties\u00a0were ordered in the case he was researching. \u00a0Here instead of a graphic of \u2018the sciences as according to Sheldon Cooper\u2019 we have a move towards the social basis of the value ascribed to the disciplines and why they present themselves as more \u2018pure\u2019 or \u2018impure\u2019. \u00a0It is these classifications and the changing balance of the relationship between the sciences and the arts (the increasing value given to the former in the reorganisation of the university) which Bourdieu then argues is a basis for the challenge the social sciences are seen by philosophers in having to philosophy. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Edit: I think this graph and discussion in this chapter of Homo Academicus provides a new direction in which to approach Bourdieu\u2019s critique of the tendency to dismiss empirical work and how the importance of theoretical-empirical work also serves as a device to liberate the social sciences when reflexively turned back on itself as opposed to deferring to the apparent legitimacy of other disciplines in\u00a0delineating\u00a0sociology\u2019s area and limits of competence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>saved for further consideration. I have read only one Bordieu volume, on the logic of practice, in a group with heterogenous theoretical formations. since I first received exposure to fields through physics, that is where my sense-making wanted to locate\/relate fields. others in the group located them elsewhere. epistemological differences were expressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thepovertyoftheory: fornices: It\u2019s true. I study Biology and end up doing Chemistry. I study Chemistry and end up doing Physics. It all comes down to Maths in the end. No honestly, I\u2019ve been using concepts from my Further Maths A2 and Physics GCSE classes to help me understand concepts in Chemistry and Biology at degree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-5S3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22573,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22571\/revisions\/22573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}