| The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science Contributor(s): Joas, Hans, Klein, Barbro |
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ISBN: 9004192840 ISBN-13: 9789004192843 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $155.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Methodology - Social Science | Sociology - General - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: 300.1 |
| LCCN: 2010036912 |
| Series: International Comparative Social Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.5" W x 9.7" (2.05 lbs) 460 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: More than perhaps anybody else in the world, the Swedish political scientist and sociologist Bj rn Wittrock has contributed - both on the intellectual and institutional level - to making a truly global social science possible. This volume contains contributions from twenty-six world-renowned scholars who address different aspects of his ambitious research program as well as current trends in the institutionalization of the social and human sciences. The essays in this volume focus on such topics as: the role of the state; the reintegration of history and the social sciences; the importance of civilizational studies and the comparison of civilizations; the interaction of cultural and social dynamics; the analysis of trends in higher education and the institutionalization of social-scientific research. |