How the Social Sciences Think about the World's Social

How the Social Sciences Think about the World's Social
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9783838268927
ISBN-13 : 383826892X
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Book Synopsis How the Social Sciences Think about the World's Social by : Michael Kuhn

Download or read book How the Social Sciences Think about the World's Social written by Michael Kuhn and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the new millennium, the social sciences took an epochal 'turn' that revolutionized their theory-building. As a response to what they called the globalization of the social, they found the need to globalize their theorizing as well. It is curious that only after two centuries of colonialism and imperialism, after two world wars and several economic world crises, did they discover that there is a world beyond the national socials; it is even more strange that the social sciences globalize their theorizing by comparing theories about nationally confined socials and by creating all sorts of 'local' theories, as if any national social was a secluded social biotope. Trying to globalize the social sciences, they argue that globalizing social science theorizing means finding a way of theorizing that must, above all, be liberated from 'scientism' in order to allow a 'provincialization' of thinking. Not surprisingly, the globalizing social sciences have also rediscovered mythological and moral thinking as a means for a true scientific universalism. Michael Kuhn argues that the oddities of the globalizing social sciences are not accidents, but a consequence of the nature of how the social sciences theorize about the social.


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