Isomorphism (sociology)

Isomorphism ( gr ἴσος isos "equal" and μορφή morphé "form", "shape" ) is a term of the methodological " Gleichgestaltigkeit " in the social sciences, which refers to the interdisciplinary approach in various problem aspects of social life. Considered as such subject-related items: ethnology, economics, law, cultural history, political science, history and linguistics. Isomorphism is then determined when different subject areas with the same theories or models can be explored. In this case, the same structural relations, the valid statements of law for an object can be transferred to the statements of the other.

An example of

The theory of universal antinomians structures has prompted also apply the physical- cosmic laws of ( a) gravity and ( b ) centrifugal force, as well as the astronomical laws of ( c ) Revolution and ( d) rotation of planets on psychosocial circumstances Fritz Riemann. He comes according to these four laws also to a four division of personality characteristics, ( a) compulsive, (b) hysterical, (c) depression, and ( d) schizoid personalities.

Reception

Hans -Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) emphasized in the statement of the problem, methods for the humanities that uniformities as well as laws and other regularities in the Moral Science (moral sciences = humanities) after David Hume ( 1711-1776 ) predictable as recognition for phenomena and processes are used.