The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass: Studies in the Production of Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Didier Fassin (editor); George Steinmetz (editor)

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 416
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The contributors to The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass offers current social scientific perspectives on this reflexive moment in the social sciences.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Introduction: Toward a Social Science of the Social Sciences
Part one. Disciplines in the making
1 Concept-Quake: From the History of Science to the Historical Sociology of Social Science
2 Spaces of Real Possibilities: Counterfactuals and the Impact of Donors on the Social Sciences
3 The Social Life of Concepts: or, How to Study the Idea of Creativity?
4 Epistemological Crises in Legal Theory: The (Ir)Rationality of Balancing
5 The Reinvention of Sociology: Into the Trenches of Fieldwork at the Time of the Algerian Liberation War
Part two. From the national to the global
6 How Sociology Shaped Postwar Poland and How Stalinization Shaped Sociology
7 The Public Anthropology of Violence in India
8 Challenging Objectivity in Japan’s Long 1968
9 How Political Commitment Delineates Social Scientific Knowledge
10 Making Sense of Globalizing Social Science
Part three. Exploring borders and boundaries
11 Critical Humanities and the Unsettling of the Sociological Field: Is There a French Exception?
12 Recovering Subalternity in the Humanities and Social Sciences
13 Thinking about Cognitive Scientists Thinking about Religion
14 Cooperative Primates and Competitive Primatologists: Prosociality and Polemics in a Nonhuman Social Science
15 The Rise and Rise of Posthumanism: Will It Spell the End of the Human Sciences?
Contributors
Index

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