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A related framework focusing on how specific formal entities—definitions, axioms, rules of inference, measurement units—are actively built, negotiated, and stabilised within communities. It studies the work involved in making something “formal”: the debates over wording, the choices between alternative axioms, the agreements on notation, the institutional enforcement of standards. This theory reveals that formalisation is a social process, not a moment of discovery. It helps explain why different fields have different formalisms and why even within a field, formal constructions are contested.
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