Social science at the crossroads / edited by Shalini Randeria, Bjorn Wittrock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institut international de sociologie. World Congress (38th : 2008 : Budapest, Hungary)

Contributor:

Randeria, Shalini, 1955- editor.

Wittrock, Björn, editor.

Series:

Annals of the International Institute of Sociology ; Volume 13.

Annals of the international institute of sociology, 1568-1548 ; Volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Congresses.

Social sciences.

Sociology--Congresses.

Sociology.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

pages cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Summary:

The 38th World Congress of ISS 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 21th Century. From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism. Contributors are: Gustaf Arrhenius, Rajeev Bhargava, Craig Calhoun, Shmuel N. Eisentstadt, Yehuda Elkana, Raghavendra Gadagkar, Peter Hedstr m, Hans Joas, Hannes Kl pper, Ivan Krastev, Steven Lukes, Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Helga Nowotny, Shalini Randeria, Alan Ryan, Jyotirmaya Sharma, Christina Tor n, Michel Wieviorka, Bj rn Wittrock, Petri Ylikoski.

Contents:

Part 1 Forms of Being

1 What Can We Learn from Insect Societies? p. 17 / Raghavendra Gadagkar

2 What Does it Mean to Be Human? Who Has the Last Word: Sociologists, Biologists, or Philosophers? p. 27 / Alan Ryan

3 What Is It to Be Human? A Unified Model Suggests History will Have the Last Word p. 39 / Christina Toren

Part 2 Forms of Theorizing

4 Sociological Individualism p. 55 / Peter Hedström and Petri Ylikoski

5 Norms as Social Facts p. 67 / Steven Lukes

Part 3 Forms of Believing

6 Political Secularity in India before Modem Secularism. A Tentative Overview p. 85 / Rajeev Bhargava

7 Violence Affirmed: V.D. Savarkar and the Fear of Non-violence in Hindu Nationalist Thought p. 108 / Jyotirmaya Sharma

8 The Future of Christianity p. 140 / Hans Joas

Part 4 Rethinking Democracy in Its Global Contexts

9 From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism p. 153 / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt

10 Democracy for the 21st Century: Research Challenges p. 165 / Gustaf Arrhenius

11 Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics of Protest p. 187 / Ivan Krastev

Part 5 Rethinking Disciplinary Divides

12 Embracing Uncertainty p. 209 / Helga Nowotny

13 Rethinking Biomedicine p. 231 / Vinh-Kim Nguyen

14 Manifesto for the Social Sciences p. 248 / Craig Calhoun and Michel Wieviorka

Part 6 Rethinking the University

15 The Modern University in Its Contexts. Historical Transformations and Contemporary Reorientations p. 279 / Björn Wittrock

16 The University in the Twenty-First Century: Teaching the New Enlightenment at the Dawn of the Digital Age p. 302 / Yehuda Elkana and Hannes Klöpper.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Institut international de sociologie. World Congress (38th : 2008 : Budapest, Hungary) Social science at the crossroads

ISBN:

9789004224261

9004224262

OCLC:

1057731118