How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking volume looks at the human dimension of developments in the discipline by compiling a set of interviews that exemplify the life and work of a sociologist today. Their ideas and conceptualizations show to what extent a "paradigm shift" has taken root, answering questions such as whether sociology still remains a differentiated, relatively autonomous social science. The chosen interviewees are about equally divided according to gender and have been selected from among...
How is the process of globalization effecting changes in the structure of knowledge in sociology? This path-breaking volume looks at the human dime...
This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elite formation in the European Research Area. Based on a study of the European Research Council (ERC), the author investigates profound structural change in the social organization of science, as the ERC intervenes in public science systems that, until now, have largely been organized at the national level.
Against the background of an emerging new science policy, Europe's New Scientific Elite explores the social mechanisms that...
This book examines the question of whether the process of European integration in research funding has led to new forms of oligarchization and elit...
