Social Science at the Crossroads
Published on 6. June 2019
Book
Hardback
388 pages
978-90-04-22426-1 (ISBN)
Description
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 Hedstroem, Hans Joas, Hannes Kloepper, Ivan Krastev, Steven Lukes, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Helga Nowotny, Shalini Randeria, Alan Ryan, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Christina Toren, Michel Wieviorka, Bjoern Wittrock, Petri Ylikoski.
Contributors are: Gustaf Arrhenius, Rajeev Bhargava, Craig Calhoun, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Yehuda Elkana, Raghavendra Gadagkar, Peter Hedstroem, Hans Joas, Hannes Kloepper, Ivan Krastev, Steven Lukes, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Helga Nowotny, Shalini Randeria, Alan Ryan, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Christina Toren, Michel Wieviorka, Bjoern Wittrock, Petri Ylikoski.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-22426-1 (9789004224261)
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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.
Bjoern 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.
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.
Bjoern 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.
Content
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Bjoern 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 Toren
Part 2: Forms of Theorizing
4 Sociological Individualism
?Peter Hedstroem 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
?Bjoern 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 Kloepper
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Bjoern 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 Toren
Part 2: Forms of Theorizing
4 Sociological Individualism
?Peter Hedstroem 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
?Bjoern 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 Kloepper
Index of Names
Index of Subjects