By Peter Hedström, Björn Wittrock
The thirty seventh international Congress of the IIS interested in idea and study on the vanguard of sociology and the connection among sociology and its neighbouring disciplines. This quantity constitutes a sustained attempt via renowned sociologists and different social scientists to evaluate the present status of sociology. it's a stocktaking of the original nature of sociology within the mild of advances in the self-discipline itself and inside a number of neighbouring disciplines. many of the chapters define institutional suggestions for sociology within the new millennium. Others hint scholarly advances and suggest formidable learn programmes drawing on fresh advancements not just inside conventional neighbouring disciplines similar to heritage, political technological know-how, and economics, but additionally in the cognitive, cultural and mathematical sciences.
Contributors include: Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Raymond Boudon, Richard Breen, Christofer R. Edling, S. N. Eisenstadt, Jack Goldstone, Philip Gorski, Peter Gärdenfors, Ulf Hannerz, Peter Hedström, Hans Joas, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Jens Rydgren, Neil Smelser, Aage B. Sørensen, Richard Swedberg, Piotr Sztompka, Peter Wagner and Björn Wittrock.
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Application of knowledge) and phronesis (prudent advice on practice referring also to values)—the phronetic approach. ’” (Flyvbjerg 2001: 60). The whole point of the study is to enter into a dialogue with individuals and society and to assist them—after they have assisted the researchers—in reflecting on their values. : 63). In 2003 Jeffrey Alexander declares in The Meanings of Social Life that “unless we recognize the interpenetration of science and ideology in social theory, neither element can be evaluated or clarified in a rational way” (Alexander 2003: 197), and argues for the new brand of theories which “must be pushed to maintain a decentered, self-conscious reflexivity about their ideological dimensions even while they continue in their efforts to create a new explanatory scientific theory.
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Now, the general principle according to which every member of a community should be equally protected cannot be demonstrated. It represents the first element in a chain of arguments. Being the first one, it cannot be grounded on other principles. But it inspires political life constantly. This is exactly what Durkheim (1893/1973) meant on his side when he asserted that “individualism”—the need of any human being to see his dignity respected—has always been a central value, in all times and all societies.