التعريف بالتجريد : حل مشكلة المفاهيم المتنازع عليها في العلوم الاجتماعية (مفهوم الأمن مثالا)‎

Abstract EN

Concepts are critical to the functioning and evolution of social sciences.

Conceptual confusion has long been a source of difficulty in the study of social science and politics.

W.

B.

Gallie’s analysis of «essentially contested concepts» stands as a notable effort to address this problem.

This article examines Gallie’s framework and develops a solution to the problem of essentially contested concepts by focusing on the crucial stage in the research process: when the concepts are defined.

The paper works mainly with Sartori’s classic rules of concept formation, and with reference to his «ladder of abstraction.»