The benefit of broad horizons : intellectual and institutional preconditions for a global social science : festschrift for Bjorn Wittrock on the occasion of his 65th birthday /
More than perhaps anybody else in the world, the Swedish social scientist Björn Wittrock has contributed - both on the intellectual and institutional level - to making a truly global science possible. This book is devoted to an appreciation of his contributions.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Brill,
[2010]
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Colección: | International comparative social studies ;
vol. 24. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What are the benefits of broad horizons? / Hans Joas and Barbro Klein
- 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 Edling
- Policy metrics under scrutiny : the legacy of new public management / Daniel Tarschys
- History and the social sciences today / Jurgen 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 a historical context : the case of Malthus and Sweden / Lars Magnusson
- Professionalism as ideology / Rolf Torstendahl
- 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 Arjomand
- Towards a world sociology of modernity / Peter Wagner
- "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
- Buddhist connections between China and ancient Cambodia : Srama a Mandra's visit to Jiankang / Wang Bangwei
- Autochtonous Chinese conceptual history in a jocular narrative key : the emotional engagement Qing / Christoph Harbsmeier
- On the contagiousness of non-contagious behavior : the case of tax avoidance and tax evasion / Peter Hedstrom and Rebeca Ibarra
- 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 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
- Better to be than not to be? / Gustaf Arrhenius and Wlodek Rabinowitz.