The benefit of broad horizons : intellectual and institutional preconditions for a global social science : festschrift for Björn Wittrock on the occasion of his 65th birthday / / edited by Hans Joas, Barbro Klein.

• Author: Joas, Hans, 1948-
• TeilnehmendeR: Joas, Hans, 1948-; Klein, Barbro Sklute.; Wittrock, Björn.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: International Comparative Social Studies 24.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

More than perhaps anybody else in the world, the Swedish political scientist and sociologist Björn 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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Hans Joas and Barbro Klein -- The State and the Political The Reconstitution of the Realm of the Political and the Problematique of Modern Regimes / S.N. Eisenstadt -- The Strange Hybrid of the Early American State / Max M. Edling -- Policy Metrics under Scrutiny: The Legacy of New Public Management / Daniel Tarschys -- History and The Social Sciences History and the Social Sciences Today / Jürgen Kocka -- The Present Position and Prospects of Social and Political Theory / Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- The Contingency of Secularization: Reflections on the Problem of Secularization in the Work of Reinhart Koselleck / Hans Joas -- The Missing Sentence: The Visual Arts and the Social Sciences in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Paris / Wolf Lepenies -- Political Economy in Historical Context: The Case of Malthus and Sweden / Lars Magnusson -- Professionalism as Ideology / Rolf Torstendahl -- Civilizational Studies and The Comparison of Civilizations Interpreting History and Understanding Civilizations / Johann P. Arnason -- Comparison without Hegemony / Sheldon Pollock -- Developmental Patterns and Processes in Islamicate Civilization and the Impact of Modernization / Said A. Arjomand -- Towards a World Sociology of Modernity / Peter Wagner -- Cultural and Social Dynamics “The First Draft of History”: Notes on Events and Cultural Turbulence / Ulf Hannerz -- Cultural Loss and Cultural Rescue: Lilli Zickerman, Ottilia Adelborg, and the Promises of the Swedish Homecraft Movement / Barbro Klein -- The Buddhist Connection between China and Ancient Cambodia: ŚramaṆna Mandra’s Visit to Jiankang / Wang Bangwei -- Autochthonous Chinese Conceptual History in a Jocular Narrative Key: The Emotional Engagement Qíng / Christoph Harbsmeier -- On the Contagiousness of Non-Contagious Behavior: The Case of Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion / Peter Hedström and Rebeca Ibarra -- Universities and The Dilemmas of Higher Education Views from the Acropolis and the Agora: Clark Kerr’s Industrial Society / Sheldon Rothblatt -- The Growing Confusion Between “Private” and “Public” in American Higher Education / Neil J. Smelser -- The Unintended Consequences of Quantitative Measures in the Management of Science / Peter Weingart -- The Compression of Research Time and the Temporalization of the Future / Helga Nowotny -- Coda Better to Be Than Not to Be? / Gustaf Arrhenius and Wlodek Rabinowicz -- Notes on Contributors / Hans Joas and Barbro Klein -- Tabula Gratulatoria / Hans Joas and Barbro Klein -- Index / Hans Joas and Barbro Klein.