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 / edited by Hans Joas, Barbro Klein.
| Author/creator | Joas, Hans, 1948- |
| Other author | Wittrock, Björn. |
| Other author | Joas, Hans, 1948- |
| Other author | Klein, Barbro Sklute. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden [etc.] : Brill, |
| Description | xx, 434 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | International comparative social studies, 1568-4474 ; vol. 24 |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010036912 |
| ISBN | 9789004192843 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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