Colloque SEF - Ethnographie plurielles #10 - Science and the meaning of models
The SEF Colloque Ethnographies plurielles # 10 -Science et sens des modèles en sciences humaines et sociales will be held in face-to-face and distance learning sessions on June 28 and 29 at the University of Montpellier.
For its tenth edition, the Ethnographies plurielles series of meetings explores the use of models in the human and social sciences. In the sciences, the model seems to aim to say something about its object as accurately as possible, while at the same time manifesting it in a partial or transformed form for the purposes of manipulation (both intellectual and physical). The plasticity of the term model supports a disciplinary approach and use of a concept that is also an activity (descriptive or analogical). This colloquium therefore invites us to explore and question the operations involved in the modelling and modalization of social and human processes, going beyond a purely logical-mathematical perspective to consider the processes and actors involved in modelling.