{"product_id":"the-social-sciences-in-the-looking-glass-9781478019459","title":"The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn recent years, social scientists have turned their critical lens on the historical roots and contours of their disciplines, including their politics and practices, epistemologies and methods, institutionalization and professionalization, national development and colonial expansion, globalization and local contestations, and public presence and role in society. \u003ci\u003eThe Social Sciences in the Looking Glass\u003c\/i\u003e offers current social scientific perspectives on this reflexive moment. Examining sociology, anthropology, philosophy, political science, legal theory, and religious studies, the volume’s contributors outline the present transformations of the social sciences, explore their connections with critical humanities, analyze the challenges of alternate paradigms, and interrogate recent endeavors to move beyond the human. Throughout, the authors, who belong to half a dozen disciplines, trace how the social sciences are thoroughly entangled in the social facts they analyze and are k\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In an era in which the social sciences are routinely under attack for being perceived as unproductive and overly critical and deterministic, this “social science of the social sciences” is an important and timely contribution. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty.\" -- J. R. Mitrano * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Toward a Social Science of the Social Sciences \/ Didier Fassin and George Steinmetz  1\u003cbr\u003e Part One. Disciplines in the Making\u003cbr\u003e 1. Concept-Quake: From the History of Science to the Historical Sociology of Social Science \/ George Steinmetz  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Spaces of Real Possibilities: Counterfactuals and the Impact of Donors on the Social Sciences \/ Álvaro Maorcillo Laiz  81\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Social Life of Concepts: or, How to Study the Idea of Creativity? \/ Bregje F. Van Eekelen  107\u003cbr\u003e 4. Epistemological Crises in Legal Theory: The (Ir)Rationality of Balancing \/ Carel Smith  129\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Reinvention of Sociology: Into the Trenches of Fieldwork at the Time of the Algerian Liberation War \/ Amín Pérez  147\u003cbr\u003e Part Two. From the National to the Global\u003cbr\u003e 6. How Sociology Shaped Postwar Poland and How Stalinization Shaped Sociology \/ Agata Zysiak  175\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Public Anthropology of Violence in India \/ Chitralekha  195\u003cbr\u003e 8. Challenging Objectivity in Japan’s Long 1968 \/ Miriam Kingsberg Kadia  218\u003cbr\u003e 9. How Political Commitment Delineates Social Scientific Knowledge \/ Kristoffer Kropp  240\u003cbr\u003e 10. Making Sense of Globalizing Social Science \/ Johan Heilbron  262\u003cbr\u003e Part Three. Exploring Borders and Boundaries\u003cbr\u003e 11. Critical Humanities and the Unsettling of the Sociological Field: Is There a French Exception? \/ Jean-Louis Fabiani  287\u003cbr\u003e 12. Recovering Subalternity in the Humanities and Social Sciences \/ Peter D. Thomas  310\u003cbr\u003e 13. Thinking about Cognitive Scientists Thinking about Religion \/ John Lardas Modern  328\u003cbr\u003e 14. Cooperative Primates and Competitive Primatologists: Prosociality and Polemics in a Nonhuman Social Science \/ Nicolas Langlitz  351\u003cbr\u003e 15. The Rise and Rise of Posthumanism: Will It Spell the End of the Human Sciences? \/ Didier Fassin  368\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  393\u003cbr\u003e Index 397","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409011155287,"sku":"9781478019459","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478019459.jpg?v=1730505081","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-social-sciences-in-the-looking-glass-9781478019459","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}