Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge – serie
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Europe’s New Scientific Elite
Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area
Häftad, 2018
750 kr
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This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research Council (ERC), the author investigates profound structural change …
Practicing Social Science
Sociologists and their Craft
Häftad, 2019
689 kr
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How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking volume looks at the human dimension of developments in the discipline by compiling a set of interviews that exemplify the life and work of a sociologist today. Their ideas and …
Reviewing Political Criticism
Journals, Intellectuals, and the State
Häftad, 2020
793 kr
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Reviewing Political Criticism examines the rise of the ’review’ form of journal publication, from the early eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. The review belongs to a long tradition of written political criticism that first advised, then revised, and with the increased confidence …
Writing and Thinking in Contemporary Academia
The Poetics of Clarity
Häftad, 2021
718 kr
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Across disciplinary borders, clarity is taken for granted as a cardinal virtue of communication in contemporary academia. But what is clarity, how is it practised in writing across disciplinary borders and how does it affect our ways of researching and thinking? This book explores such questions by …
Knowledge for Whom?
Public Sociology in the Making
Av Christian Fleck, Andreas Hess
Häftad, 2024
631 kr
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This ground-breaking volume is a follow-up to Intellectuals and Their Publics. In contrast to the earlier book, which was mainly concerned with the activity of intellectuals and how it relates to the public, this volume analyses what happens when sociology and sociologists engage with or serve …
Europe’s New Scientific Elite
Social Mechanisms of Science in the European Research Area
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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Winner of the Harald Kaufmann Prize for Senior Researchers, 2018This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research …
New Public Spheres
Recontextualizing the Intellectual
Av Peter Thijssen, Walter Weyns m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
791 kr
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The public sphere provides a domain of social life in which public opinion is expressed by means of rational discourse and debate. Habermas linked its historical development to the coffee houses and journals in England, Parisian salons and German reading clubs. He described it as a bourgeois public …
Zygmunt Bauman
Why Good People do Bad Things
Av Shaun Best
Häftad, 2016
849 kr
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In this ground-breaking book, Shaun Best analyses the intellectual knowledge production of Zygmunt Bauman and his rise to academic stardom in the English speaking world by evaluating the relation between his biography, the contexts in which he found himself, and why his intellectual creativity is …
Writing and Thinking in Contemporary Academia
The Poetics of Clarity
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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Across disciplinary borders, clarity is taken for granted as a cardinal virtue of communication in contemporary academia. But what is clarity, how is it practised in writing across disciplinary borders and how does it affect our ways of researching and thinking? This book explores such questions by …
Social Scientific Gaze
The Social Question and the Rise of Academic Social Science in Sweden
Häftad, 2017
844 kr
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The social sciences have, ever since they were first established as academic disciplines, played a foundational role in most spheres of modern society - in policy-making, education, the media and public debate - and hence also, indirectly, for our self-understanding as social beings. The Social …
Knowledge for Whom?
Public Sociology in the Making
Av Christian Fleck, Andreas Hess
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
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This ground-breaking volume is a follow-up to Intellectuals and Their Publics. In contrast to the earlier book, which was mainly concerned with the activity of intellectuals and how it relates to the public, this volume analyses what happens when sociology and sociologists engage with or serve …
Zygmunt Bauman
Why Good People do Bad Things
Av Shaun Best
Inbunden, 2013
2658 kr
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In this ground-breaking book, Shaun Best analyses the intellectual knowledge production of Zygmunt Bauman and his rise to academic stardom in the English speaking world by evaluating the relation between his biography, the contexts in which he found himself, and why his intellectual creativity is …
New Public Spheres
Recontextualizing the Intellectual
Av Peter Thijssen, Walter Weyns m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
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The public sphere provides a domain of social life in which public opinion is expressed by means of rational discourse and debate. Habermas linked its historical development to the coffee houses and journals in England, Parisian salons and German reading clubs. He described it as a bourgeois public …
Practicing Social Science
Sociologists and their Craft
Inbunden, 2016
2736 kr
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How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking volume looks at the human dimension of developments in the discipline by compiling a set of interviews that exemplify the life and work of a sociologist today. Their ideas and …
Reviewing Political Criticism
Journals, Intellectuals, and the State
Inbunden, 2015
2504 kr
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Reviewing Political Criticism examines the rise of the ’review’ form of journal publication, from the early eighteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. The review belongs to a long tradition of written political criticism that first advised, then revised, and with the increased confidence …
Social Scientific Gaze
The Social Question and the Rise of Academic Social Science in Sweden
Inbunden, 2015
2504 kr
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The social sciences have, ever since they were first established as academic disciplines, played a foundational role in most spheres of modern society - in policy-making, education, the media and public debate - and hence also, indirectly, for our self-understanding as social beings. The Social …
