Meta-Sciences of Disciplinary Formation: Six Perspectives for Studying Research Fields

This conceptual working paper reconstructs an existing programme as six revisable perspectives: genesis, order, coherence, legitimacy, transformation and epistemic modes. It separates the naming of a proposal, social formation of a field and evidential warrant. Four research questions address comparative histories, prospective mapping, guided proposal review and longitudinal change. An invented civilian example concerning urban shade mapping illustrates the distinctions. The focused comparison identifies substantial predecessors in meta-research and science of science; no empty intellectual territory, universal lifecycle or periodic law is claimed. No empirical study, validated instrument, global novelty finding or established new disciplinary status is reported. The historical source files are consulted selectively and remain separate restricted records. Whole-file identity between local and archived historical texts is not claimed. English paper with German abstract, conceptual model JSON, README and SHA-256 manifest. Drafting and editorial checks were AI-assisted; no external peer review or personal sentence-by-sentence author review is claimed. This new open edition contains the bounded conceptual reconstruction, not technical source procedures or internal provenance files.