The social scientist as public intellectual : critical reflections in a changing world / Charles F. Gattone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gattone, Charles F., 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Policy sciences.

Social sciences and state.

Social scientists.

Policy scientists.

Physical Description:

xv, 169 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2006]

Summary:

In The Social Scientist as Public Intellectual, Charles Gattone addresses the question of the public role of the social scientist by reviewing the work of several key social thinkers, from Max Weber to Pierre Bourdieu. Drawing on the analyses of these scholars, Gattone argues that although political and economic institutions continue to influence the course of academic knowledge, opportunities remain for social scientists to act independently of these constraints, and approach their work as public intellectuals.

Contents:

Knowledge and politics in early modern social thought: Auguste Comte and Henri Derouvroy Saint-Simon

Max Weber: social science and politics in the transition to state capitalism

Thorstein Veblen: the social scientist as innovative thinker

Karl Mannheim and Joseph Schumpeter: social science, intellectuals, and politics in an age of declining liberalism

C. Wright Mills and John Kenneth Galbraith: institutions, social science, and the role of intellectuals in the new industrial state

Pierre Bourdieu: intellectuals, symbolic power, and social change

The social scientist as public intellectual.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-161) and index.

ISBN:

0742537927

0742537935

OCLC:

61687818

Publisher Number:

9780742537927

9780742537934