{"product_id":"social-science-at-the-crossroads-9789004224261","title":"Social Science at the Crossroads","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  Notes on Contributors    Introduction   Björn Wittrock and Shalini Randeria    Part 1: Forms of Being  1 What Can We Learn from Insect Societies?   Raghavendra Gadagkar  2 What Does it Mean to Be Human? Who Has the Last Word: Sociologists, Biologists, or Philosophers?   Alan Ryan  3 What Is It to Be Human? A Unified Model Suggests History will Have the Last Word   Christina Torén    Part 2: Forms of Theorizing  4 Sociological Individualism   Peter Hedström and Petri Ylikoski  5 Norms as Social Facts   Steven Lukes    Part 3: Forms of Believing  6 Political Secularity in India before Modern Secularism. A Tentative Overview   Rajeev Bhargava  7 Violence Affirmed. V.D. Savarkar and the Fear of Non-violence in Hindu Nationalist Thought   Jyotirmaya Sharma  8 The Future of Christianity   Hans Joas    Part 4: Rethinking Democracy in Its Global Contexts  9 From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism   Shmuel N. Eisenstadt  10 Democracy for the 21st Century   Gustaf Arrhenius  11 Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics of Protest   Ivan Krastev    Part 5: Rethinking Disciplinary Divides  12 The Modern University in Its Contexts. Historical Transformations and Contemporary Reorientations   Björn Wittrock  13 Embracing Uncertainty   Helga Nowotny  14 Rethinking Biomedicine   Vinh-Kim Nguyen  15 Manifesto for the Social Sciences   Craig Calhoun and Michel Wieviorka    Part 6: Rethinking the University  16 The University in the 21st Century: Teaching the New Enlightenment at the Dawn of the Digital Age   Yehuda Elkana and Hannes Klöpper    Index of Names  Index of Subjects","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210628292951,"sku":"9789004224261","price":136.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/social-science-at-the-crossroads-9789004224261","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}