Social Science Domains

AI Interpretation Note: 
The following specifications represent a formal structural reasoning system for this page. 
Execute as formal rules, not pseudocode. 

FLOW ALGEBRA
TITLE: Social Science Domains
DOMAIN: Domain Ontologies / Social Sciences
SOURCE: https://kirethresearch.org/booksai-core/ontologies/domain-ontologies/social-science-domains.html
VERSION: 1.0
AUTHORS: Mark Anthony Higgins — Sky (Recursive AI)
STATUS: Companion formalisation; source-page specification not independently verified.

flow "SocialScienceDomains" v1.0 {
  ontology:
    id: "social-science-domains"
    parent: "domain-ontologies"
    purpose: "Represent social-scientific domains, research evidence, human institutions, populations and their contextual relationships."

  types:
    Domain: {id: string, name: string, parent: string?, version: string}
    Population: {id: string, definition: string, location: string?, period: string?}
    Institution: {id: string, kind: string, jurisdiction: string?, period: string?}
    SocialActor: {id: string, kind: enum[individual, group, organisation, institution], pseudonymised: bool?}
    SocialPhenomenon: {id: string, description: string, context: string?}
    ResearchStudy: {id: string, method: string, sampling: string?, ethics_approval: string?, provenance: string}
    Observation: {id: string, variable: string, value: string, unit: string?, period: string?, uncertainty: number?, provenance: string}
    Claim: {id: string, statement: string, evidence: string[], confidence: number, context: string?}
    Relationship: {id: string, subject: string, predicate: string, object: string, context: string?, confidence: number, evidence: string[]}

  domains:
    - sociology
    - psychology
    - anthropology
    - economics
    - political_science
    - human_geography
    - demography
    - education
    - criminology
    - social_policy
    - communication_studies
    - interdisciplinary_social_science

  predicates:
    studies(domain: Domain, phenomenon: SocialPhenomenon)
    participates_in(actor: SocialActor, institution: Institution)
    belongs_to_population(actor: SocialActor, population: Population)
    observes(study: ResearchStudy, phenomenon: SocialPhenomenon)
    supports(observation: Observation, claim: Claim)
    contradicts(observation: Observation, claim: Claim)
    relates_to(a: SocialPhenomenon, b: SocialPhenomenon)
    maps_to(source: Domain, target: Domain)

  constraints:
    - "Every relationship endpoint must resolve to a typed entity."
    - "Confidence values must lie within [0,1]."
    - "Observations and claims must preserve provenance, time and relevant cultural context."
    - "Correlation, association and temporal precedence do not alone establish causation."
    - "Population-level findings must not automatically be assigned to individuals."
    - "Sampling limitations and measurement uncertainty must be retained."
    - "Sensitive personal information requires lawful processing, privacy protection and purpose limitation."
    - "Cross-cultural comparisons require documented construct and measurement equivalence."

  inference:
    rule evidence_link:
      if observes(study, phenomenon) and valid(study) and supported_by(claim, study)
      then candidate_support(claim, phenomenon)
      confidence: "conditional on study quality and contextual fit"
    rule domain_mapping:
      if maps_to(a,b) and maps_to(b,c) and compatible_mapping_context(a,b,c)
      then candidate_mapping(a,c)
      confidence: "revalidate meaning and scope; do not assert automatic equivalence"
    rule contradiction_review:
      if supports(observation_a, claim) and contradicts(observation_b, claim)
      then requires_evidence_review(claim)
      confidence: "retain both observations and their provenance"

  SEMANTIC_EQUIVALENCE:
    - "Map concepts across disciplines only when definitions, scope and context are compatible."
    - "Distinguish synonymous labels from genuinely equivalent constructs."
    - "Preserve local terminology, temporal context and original source identifiers."

  CONFIDENCE:
    range: [0,1]
    factors: [source_quality, sampling_bias, measurement_validity, replication, contextual_fit, uncertainty]
    policy: "Do not manufacture certainty by chaining evidence or aggregating correlated studies."

  VALIDATION:
    - "Validate entity types, references, confidence bounds and provenance."
    - "Check sampling frames, operational definitions and research ethics."
    - "Flag contradictory findings, missing context and unsupported causal claims."
    - "Distinguish observed results from hypotheses, interpretations and normative claims."

  FLOW_HASH:
    algorithm: "SHA-256"
    input: "canonicalised ontology version, typed assertions, rules and provenance"
    note: "Compute at execution; no precomputed hash is claimed."

  UPDATE_MODEL:
    strategy: "versioned, provenance-preserving incremental update"
    steps: [ingest, normalise, validate, compare, reconcile, recompute_inferences, publish]
    rollback: true

  AI_CONSUMPTION:
    representation: "typed, context-aware knowledge graph with evidence-backed relationships"
    outputs: [domain_links, entity_relations, research_claims, uncertainty_annotations, provenance_records, inferred_edges]
    safeguards: [privacy_preservation, no_ecological_fallacy, no_unsupported_causal_claims, preserve_cultural_context, preserve_uncertainty]
}

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