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Author:   Ronald Pohoryles (ICCR Foundation, Austria) ,  Andrew Sors (European Commission, Brussels, Belgium)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138065956

ISBN 10:   1138065951
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   01 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"Introduction: On the future of social sciences and humanities – a pragmatic perspective 1. Back to the future? From pragmatic approaches in the social sciences to the development of the patchwork theory 2. Social scientists as technicians, advisors and meaning producers 3. Society as an ethical system 4. Travelling concepts and crossing paths: a conceptual history of identity 5. Knowledge, International Relations and the structure–agency debate: towards the concept of ""epistemic selectivities"" 6. The creative economy: invention of a global orthodoxy 7. In search of experiential knowledge 8. Seeing the wood for the trees: Social Science 3.0 and the role of visual thinking 9. Maps of the uncertain: a new approach to communicate scientific ignorance Obituary: A thank you note and a farewell to our colleagues to whom we owe our success"

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Ronald Pohoryles is Research Director of the ICCR and President of the European Association of the Advancement of the Social Sciences. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research. He is also Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria, where he teaches classical liberal scholars. Andrew Sors is Head of Science and Technology for the European Commission’s Delegation to India. He was previously Head of Social Sciences and Humanities Research at the European Commission. He has been a visiting professor at Manchester University, UK, and spent three years as Rector of the Collegium Budapest Institute for Advanced Study, Hungary.

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