Huvudgrupp 1

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• Durkheim, Émile, The rules of sociological method, New York, Free press, cop. 1982 (Chapter V.)
• Kuhn, Thomas S., The structure of scientific revolutions, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Pr., 1962 (15 pp.)
• Lipton, Peter, Does the Truth Matter in Science?, Ingår i: Arts and humanities in higher education, 2005, s. 173–183
• Popper, Karl, Conjectures and refutations: the growth of scientific knowledge, [5. ed., rev.], London, Routledge, 2002 (5 pp.)
• Richardson, Alan, Robert K. Merton and Philosophy of Science, Ingår i: Social studies of science: an international review of research in the social dimensions of science and technology, 2004, s. 855–858
• Schutz, Alfred, On Multiple Realities, Ingår i: Philosophy and phenomenological research: a quarterly journal, 1945, s. 533–57 (JSTOR)
• Winch, Peter, The idea of a social science and its relation to philosophy, London ;a New York, Routledge, 2008