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The articles collected in this volume point out that society as a whole is changing. Social change is due not only to changes in technology and economy, but also to the changing strategies and discourses of social scientists. To what exactly will this change lead in the 21st century? What kind of society lies ahead? In this book the reader will find many arguments and hints pertaining to these questions. She/he will be confronted by a plethora of enriching conceptions of the relationships between social sciences and social changes.

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Author:   Diederik Aerts ,  Serge Gutwirth ,  Sonja Smets ,  Luk Van Langenhove
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Volume:   3
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.532kg
ISBN:  

9789401059800

ISBN 10:   9401059802
Pages:   309
Publication Date:   08 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. Participating in the World: Research and Education in a Changing Society.- 2. Science, Philosophy and Society.- 3. Science: Searching for the Soul?.- 4. Realism as a New Philosophy of Social Science.- 5. The Cognitive Revolution and 21st Century Enlightenment: Towards a Contemporary Evolutionary Progressive World View.- 6. Mac Meets Philip II: The Changing Technological Discourse in Mexico.- 7. Mea Culpa: Formal Education and the Dis-Integrated World.- 8. Art Academies, Cultural Copying Fidelity and Society: Later European Visual Representation as a Predatory Phenomenon.- 9. Perspectival Unity: Nietzsche and the Politics of International Health.- 10. Let’s Try and Pair Contradictory Pairs: Notes on the Dynamics of Antagonistic Cognition.- 11. Control, Contestation, Collaboration: The Anorexic Body and a Rescripting of Psychiatry.- 12. Small Innovation Firms in a Transition Economy.- 13. Science and Technology in Transition: The Polish Case.- 14. The Information Superhighway: The Atom-Bomb of the 90s.- 15. Persons, Lives and Histories: An Attempt to a Critique of the Study of (Single) Persons in Psychohistory and Political Psychology.- 16. Wallerstein’s World-System Analysis: A Critical Assessment.- 17. The Emergence of a Learning Society in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities.- 18. The Media, the Public Sphere and Talk Shows.- 19. Science, Fiction & the Appeal of Complexity.

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