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 13.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Congresses.

Social sciences.

Sociology--Congresses.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2019.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Dedication

Copyright page

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Social Sciences at the Crossroads: Introduction / Björn Wittrock and Shalini Randeria

Forms of Being

What Can We Learn from Insect Societies? / Raghavendra Gadagkar

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

What Is It to Be Human? A Unified Model Suggests History Will Have the Last Word / Christina Toren

Forms of Theorizing

Sociological Individualism / Peter Hedström

Norms as Social Facts / Steven Lukes

Forms of Believing

Political Secularity in India before Modern Secularism. A Tentative Overview / Rajeev Bhargava

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

The Future of Christianity / Hans Joas

Rethinking Democracy in Its Global Contexts

From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt

Democracy for the 21st Century: Research Challenges / Gustaf Arrhenius

Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics of Protest / Ivan Krastev

Rethinking Disciplinary Divides

Embracing Uncertainty / Helga Nowotny

Rethinking Biomedicine / Vinh-Kim Nguyen

Manifesto for the Social Sciences / Craig Calhoun and Michel Wieviorka

Rethinking the University

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

The University in the Twenty-First Century: Teaching the New Enlightenment at the Dawn of the Digital Age / Yehuda Elkana

Back Matter

Index of Names.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-38512-6

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004385122 DOI