Europe's New Scientific Elite

Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-367-08539-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge

This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research Council (ERC), the author investigates profound structural change in the social organization of science, as the ERC intervenes in public science systems that, until now, have largely been organized at the national level.

Against the background of an emerging new science policy, Europe’s New Scientific Elite explores the social mechanisms that generate, reproduce and modify existing dynamics of stratification and oligarchization in science, shedding light on the strong normative impact of the ERC’s funding on problem-choice in science, the cultural legitimacy and future vision of science, and the building of new research councils of national, European and global scope.

A comparative, theory-driven investigation of European research funding, this book will appeal to social scientists with interests in the sociology of knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoenig, Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The problem: Establishing ‘excellence’ in socially stratified science

Chapter 3. State of research: Controversial ideas on science and public research in a global marketplace

Chapter 4. Explaining social change by Europeanization of science: An analytical approach

Chapter 5. Methodology: Judging scientific ‘excellence’

Chapter 6. The social structure of the European Research Area: A country comparison

Chapter 7. Knowledge of ‘European excellence’: The grant-winning research

Chapter 8. The cultural structure of the European Research Area at supranational level: The case of the European Research Council

Chapter 9. The sampling: What is a scientific elite?

Chapter 10. The grantees: Social choice and mechanisms in elite career trajectories

Chapter 11. The panellists: Social choice and mechanisms in grant peer review

Chapter 12. Social consequences and conclusions: Cumulative advantage and the case of the European Research Council

Appendix

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Hoenig is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Education & Society of the University of Luxembourg. She obtained her qualifications in sociology at the University of Graz (Diploma 2001, PhD 2009) and the University of Innsbruck (Habilitation 2016). She has published on the sociology of science and knowledge, the history of social sciences, social inequalities and European integration.