Charting Transnational Fields: Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge

ISBN-13: 9781032173856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 276 str.

Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg; Stefan Bernhard

Opis

The volume provides a field-analytical methodology for researching knowledge based sociopolitical processes of transnationalization.

Spis treści

1. How to Chart Transnational Fields – Introduction to a Methodology for a Political Sociology of Knowledge;  Part 1: Methodological Foundations;  2. How Many Fields can Stand on the Point of a Pin? Methodological Notes on Reflexivity, the Sociological Craft and Field Analysis;  3. Adjusting a Bourdieusian Approach to the Study of Transnational Fields. Transversal Practices and State (Trans)formations Related to Intelligence and Surveillance;  4. National, International, Transnational, and Global Fields. Theoretical Clarifications and Methodological Implications;  5. The Post-National Analysis of Fields;  6. European Elites as (a) Field(s). Reflections on the Uses of Prosopography and Geometric Data Analysis Based on Three Joint Surveys of Transnational Objects;  Part 2: Investigating Political Fields;  7. Global Change. A Field Theory Perspective on The End of Empire;  8. The Double Function of Rankings. Consecration and Dispositif in Transnational Academic Fields;  9. A Weak Field of Social Policy? A Transnational Perspective on the EEC’s Social Policy-Making (from the 1940s to the 1970s);  10. The Rise of a European Field of Evidence-Based Education;  11. The Euro Crisis Dispositf. Heterogeneous Positioning Strategies in Polycentric Fields;  12. Tracing ‘The Transnational’ in the Nationalization of School Policy. The Transformation of Standards-Based Reform in the US.

O autorze

Christian Schmidt-Wellenburg is Assistant Professor at Potsdam University, Germany.

Stefan Bernhard is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB), Germany.