Overview
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.
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Author: Shalini Randeria ,
Björn Wittrock
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 13
Weight: 0.730kg
ISBN: 9789004224261
ISBN 10: 9004224262
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 06 June 2019
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Yehuda Elkana (1934-2012) was Professor of the History of Science, President and Rector of the Central European University (CEU) and before that Director of the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. He also held a position at Harvard University and was Professor in the Theory of Science at ETH in Zurich. He was a co-founder and editor of the scientific journal Science in Context. His research areas included the history of philosophy, the history and theory of science, higher education and the future of the university. Shalini Randeria is Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Director of the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and Professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. She has published widely on the anthropology of globalization, law, the state, social movements, as well as on post-coloniality and multiple modernities in India. Björn Wittrock is Professor at Uppsala University and Principal of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has published widely on the history of universities, of social science, the Axial Age and global history. Wittrock was President of IIS in the years 2005-2013.
