Social science at the crossroads / edited by Shalini Randeria, Bjorn Wittrock.

• Author: Institut international de sociologie. World Congress
• TeilnehmendeR: Randeria, Shalini, 1955-; Wittrock, Björn,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Annals of the International Institute of Sociology 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 pages).

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.

Table of 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.