Social Science at the Crossroads

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-22426-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Annals of the International Institute of Sociology

The 38th World Congress of IIS addressed some of the most fundamental issues of sociological inquiry in light of global processes and the development of different fields of knowledge: What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of social as opposed to natural processes? How do efforts to map the social and political world interact with that world and with traditional sociological practices? What can we say about relationships between scientific, political and religious beliefs? This volume sets the stage for a sustained look at what social science can say about the twenty-first century and to address the theme of the congress in 2008: Sociology Looks at the 21st Century. From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism.

Contributors are: Gustaf Arrhenius, Rajeev Bhargava, Craig Calhoun, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Yehuda Elkana, Raghavendra Gadagkar, Peter Hedström, Hans Joas, Hannes Klöpper, Ivan Krastev, Steven Lukes, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Helga Nowotny, Shalini Randeria, Alan Ryan, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Christina Torén, Michel Wieviorka, Björn Wittrock, Petri Ylikoski.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Randeria, Shalini

Wittrock, Björn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Björn Wittrock and Shalini Randeria

Part 1: Forms of Being

1 What Can We Learn from Insect Societies?

Raghavendra Gadagkar

2 What Does it Mean to Be Human? Who Has the Last Word: Sociologists, Biologists, or Philosophers?

Alan Ryan

3 What Is It to Be Human? A Unified Model Suggests History will Have the Last Word

Christina Torén

Part 2: Forms of Theorizing

4 Sociological Individualism

Peter Hedström and Petri Ylikoski

5 Norms as Social Facts

Steven Lukes

Part 3: Forms of Believing

6 Political Secularity in India before Modern Secularism. A Tentative Overview

Rajeev Bhargava

7 Violence Affirmed. V.D. Savarkar and the Fear of Non-violence in Hindu Nationalist Thought

Jyotirmaya Sharma

8 The Future of Christianity

Hans Joas

Part 4: Rethinking Democracy in Its Global Contexts

9 From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism

Shmuel N. Eisenstadt

10 Democracy for the 21st Century

Gustaf Arrhenius

11 Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics of Protest

Ivan Krastev

Part 5: Rethinking Disciplinary Divides

12 The Modern University in Its Contexts. Historical Transformations and Contemporary Reorientations

Björn Wittrock

13 Embracing Uncertainty

Helga Nowotny

14 Rethinking Biomedicine

Vinh-Kim Nguyen

15 Manifesto for the Social Sciences

Craig Calhoun and Michel Wieviorka

Part 6: Rethinking the University

16 The University in the 21st Century: Teaching the New Enlightenment at the Dawn of the Digital Age

Yehuda Elkana and Hannes Klöpper

Index of Names

Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Yehuda Elkana (1934-2012) was Professor of the History of Science, President and Rector of the Central European University (CEU) and before that Director of the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. He also held a position at Harvard University and was Professor in the Theory of Science at ETH in Zurich. He was a co-founder and editor of the scientific journal Science in Context. His research areas included the history of philosophy, the history and theory of science, higher education and the future of the university.

Shalini Randeria is Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Director of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. She has published widely on the anthropology of globalization, law, the state, social movements, as well as on post-coloniality and multiple modernities in India.

Björn Wittrock is Professor at Uppsala University and Principal of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published widely on the history of universities, of social science, the Axial Age and global history. Wittrock was President of IIS in the years 2005-2013.