The Social Sciences in the Looking Glass

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 Socia...

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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 volume’s 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.

Didier Fassin is Professor at the Collège de France in Paris and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Director of study at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, he is the author of numerous books, including Life: A Critical User’s Manual.

George Steinmetz is Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He is the author ...

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Didier Fassin is Professor at the Collège de France in Paris and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Director of study at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, he is the author of numerous books, including Life: A Critical User’s Manual.

George Steinmetz is Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of various books, including The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire.

Introduction: Toward a Social Science of the Social Sciences / Didier Fassin and George Steinmetz
Part One. Disciplines in the Making
1. Concept-Quake: From the History of Science to the Historical Sociology of Social Science / George Steinmetz
2. Spaces of Real Possibilities: Counterfactuals and the Impact of Donors on the Social Sciences / Álvaro Maorcillo Laiz
3. The Social Life of Concepts: or, How to Study the Idea of Creativity / Bregje F. Van Eekelen
4. Epistemological Crises in Legal Theory: The (Ir)Rationality of Balancing / Carel Smith
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Introduction: Toward a Social Science of the Social Sciences / Didier Fassin and George Steinmetz
Part One. Disciplines in the Making
1. Concept-Quake: From the History of Science to the Historical Sociology of Social Science / George Steinmetz
2. Spaces of Real Possibilities: Counterfactuals and the Impact of Donors on the Social Sciences / Álvaro Maorcillo Laiz
3. The Social Life of Concepts: or, How to Study the Idea of Creativity / Bregje F. Van Eekelen
4. Epistemological Crises in Legal Theory: The (Ir)Rationality of Balancing / Carel Smith
5. The Reinvention of Sociology: Into the Trenches of Fieldwork at the Time of the Algerian Liberation War / Amín Pérez
Part Two. From the National to the Global
6. How Sociology Shaped Postwar Poland and How Stalinization Shaped Sociology / Agata Zysiak
7. The Public Anthropology of Violence in India / Chitralekha
8. Challenging Objectivity in Japan’s Long 1968 / Miriam Kingsberg Kadia
9. How Political Commitment Delineates Social Scientific Knowledge / Kristoffer Kropp
10. Making Sense of Globalizing Social Science / Johan Heilbron
Part Three. Exploring Borders and Boundaries
11. Critical Humanities and the Unsettling of the Sociological Field: Is There a French Exception? / Jean-Louis Fabiani
12. Recovering Subalternity in the Humanities and Social Sciences / Peter D. Thomas
13. Thinking about Cognitive Scientists Thinking about Religion / John Lardas Modern
14. Cooperative Primates and Competitive Primatologists: Prosociality and Polemics in a Nonhuman Social Science / Nicolas Langlitz
15. The Rise and Rise of Posthumanism: Will It Spell the End of the Human Sciences? / Didier Fassin
Contributors
Index
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