As obvious as it may sound, social sciences are, in principle, devoted to the systematic study of human behavior on a social scale. However, when faced with the task of bearing into analytic consideration the phenomenon of human knowledge, social science tends to recoil to philosophical conceptualizations of the cognitive capabilities of human beings. This is not to imply there’s a fundamental flaw in reaching out to classical philosophy when faced with the task of unraveling the fundamental characteristics of knowledge, for it has time and again proven its value in offering a solid groundwork for logical speculation of the matter. However, when faced with the task of formulating a scientific investigation surrounding the structure of knowledge, social science seems to have a hard time in acknowledging how the advancement in measurement-based research regarding of human knowledge has transformed the way knowledge itself is understood. A great example of this is the way genetic epistemology, the flagship of Jean Piaget's legacy, has been kept as a scientific model dedicated exclusively to developmental psychology. When his theory has generously influenced social science research regarding the structure of knowledge, as seen through a scientific (not logico-philosophical) lens. Thus, in recognition of said influence, this graduate work aims to structure a genetic investigation regarding how the structure of understanding can be studied by and within social science. Integrating Piaget’s theoretical framework with sociology and anthropology researchers, such as Günter Dux and Cristopher Robert Hallpike, this investigation aims to identify, through quantitative means, fundamental characteristics in the way sociological and anthropological structure of understanding is manifested in different graduate works generated in the social science faculty of the Pontifical Xaverian University in Bogotá, Colombia. This with the purpose of identifying whether an absolute or processual logic characterizes these graduate publications.