Open the Social SciencesConcerned about the worldwide state of the social sciencesthe relations among the disciplines, and their relationship with both the humanities and the natural sciencesthe Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, based in Lisbon, established in 1993 the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social Sciences. It comprised a distinguished international group of scholarssix from the social sciences, two from the natural sciences, and two from the