Folks that are interested in the structure of scientific communities might be interested in some of David Corfield's work. It's aimed primarily at the intersection of the math and philosophy communities, but seems to me to have some cross-application to some of the issues in this thread. The references seem to have different roots than those mentioned here so far (which is not an argument for better, just different).
http://www.dcorfield.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/HowMathematicians.pdf His conclusions may take some getting used to. He's also one of the primary contributors to The n-Category Cafe at http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/ Carl ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
