FrançaisFor a European Research Space in Social Sciences
Our network aims at analysing the conditions of possibility and realisation of an European space of research in the social sciences. The first objective is to describe the barriers which impede the emergence of such a transnational, multidisciplinary space. Our team plans to achieve the task by a systematically comparative approach of the history of the social sciences within each of the represented national contexts. Intercultural divergences and convergences prevailing within the European space will be identified; obstacles and filters slowing down if not blocking the free circulation of ideas will be delineated.
Our network wishes to improve the social conditions for a rational dialogue between participants. In such a perspective, its ambition consists of constructing the epistemological bases for an effective comparative science, which is seen as a pre-requisite to the formation of an European space of research in the social sciences. Such an epistemological platform appears to be crucial since the social sciences lag behind in relation to the rapid transformation of social realities by the constitution of an European supra-national space and the current process of globalisation.
In order to contribute to the prefiguration of an integrated European social science, our network will parallely conduct two scientific investigations :
- a general study of the apparently most international topic: the production and circulation of literary and artistic works in Europe;
- a study of the circulations of ideas in the field of social sciences in Europe of which autonomy is relatively weak with regard to economic and political factors in each of the countries concerned.
This double approach is to be reinforced by a simultaneous analysis of the tools of social sciences being used in order to control what they owe to their social conditions.
Meetings
« Literary field » Network
May 14th-16th, 2008 - Humanities and social sciences in society
Dir. G. Sapiro - Université Paris Descartes
Publications & activities
On Bourdieu, Education and Society, By Derek Robbins
[27.9.2006] - Publications
The Bardwell Press is pleased to announce the publication of a major contribution to Bourdieu studies [...]
Bourdieu and the journalistic field
[14.11.2005] - Publications
Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field is an exciting new text which builds on and extends Pierre Bourdieu's impassioned critique of our media-saturated culture [...]
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