The social sciences in the looking glass : studies in the production of knowledge In 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 their public presence and role in society. The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass offers current social scientific perspectives on this reflexive moment in the social sciences. Examining sociology anthropology philosophy political science legal theory and religious studies the volumes 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 key to helping us understand the conditions of our world. Contributors. Chitralekha Jean Louis Fabiani Didier Fassin Johan Heilbron Miriam Kingsberg Kadia Kristoffer Kropp Nicolas Langlitz John Lardas Modern Álvaro Morcillo Laiz Amín Pérez Carel Smith George Steinmetz Peter D. Thomas Bregje van Eekelen Agata Zysiak