The benefit of broad horizons
Subtitle: intellectual and institutional preconditions for a global social science : festschrift for Bjorn Wittrock on the occasion of his 65th birthday
By: edited by Hans Joas, Barbro Klein
Series: International comparative social studies
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9789004192843
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What are the benefits of broad horizons? / Hans Joas and Barbro Klein; title: The reconstitution of the realm of the political and the problematique of modern regimes / S.N. Eisenstadt; title: The strange hybrid of the early American state / Max Edling; title: Policy metrics under scrutiny : the legacy of new public management / Daniel Tarschys; title: History and the social sciences today / Jurgen Kocka; title: The present position and prospects of social and political theory / Dietrich Rueschemeyer; title: The contingency of secularization : reflections on the problem of secularization in the work of Reinhart Koselleck / Hans Joas; title: The missing sentence : the visual arts and the social sciences in mid-nineteenth century Paris / Wolf Lepenies; title: Political economy in a historical context : the case of Malthus and Sweden / Lars Magnusson; title: Professionalism as ideology / Rolf Torstendahl; title: Interpreting history and understanding civilizations / Johann P. Arnason; title: Comparison without hegemony / Sheldon Pollock; title: Developmental patterns and processes in Islamicate civilization and the impact of modernization / Said Arjomand; title: Towards a world sociology of modernity / Peter Wagner; title: "The first draft of history" : notes on events and cultural turbulence / Ulf Hannerz; title: Cultural loss and cultural rescue : Lilli Zickerman, Ottilia Adelborg, and the promises of the Swedish homecraft movement / Barbro Klein; title: Buddhist connections between China and ancient Cambodia : Srama a Mandra's visit to Jiankang / Wang Bangwei; title: Autochtonous Chinese conceptual history in a jocular narrative key : the emotional engagement Qing / Christoph Harbsmeier; title: On the contagiousness of non-contagious behavior : the case of tax avoidance and tax evasion / Peter Hedstrom and Rebeca Ibarra; title: Views from the Acropolis and the Agora : Clark Kerr's Industrial society / Sheldon Rothblatt; title: The growing confusion between "private" and "public" in American higher education / Neil Smelser; title: The unintended consequences of quantitative measures in the management of science / Peter Weingart; title: The compression of research time and the temporalization of the future / Helga Nowotny; title: Better to be than not to be? / Gustaf Arrhenius and Wlodek Rabinowitz.