Cohen-Cole: The Open Mind

Review of Cohen-Cole, Jamie. 2014. The Open Mind: Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature. Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press

Adcock: Liberalism and Political Science

The contributions stem from a roundtable held in Poznan, Poland in July 2016, at the International Political Science Association’s Congress. The roundtable was put together by IPSA’s Research Committee 33, which focuses on the history of political science as a discipline. Contributors produce a stimulating debate on Robert Adcock’s award winning Liberalism and the Emergence of Political Science: A Transatlantic Tale (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) and prompt the author to react to their questions and comments

Communalism and Internationalism: Publication norms and structures in international social science

oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/53This article present a historical-sociological case-study that addresses the “enactment” of the ideals of communalism and internationalism in the social sciences. It focuses on the transformations in/of two journals, Isis and International Sociology, which deliberately attempt to enhance international social science. Our analyses of the publication practices in these journals point to the skewed global orientation in/of these journals, despite their outspoken internationalist ideals. Internationalization looks more like Americanization, when we compare the publication practices in international social science journals with their own ideal of balanced national representation

The Polish Career of The American Soldier: From the Model to the Legend

The study conducted by Samuel Stouffer and his team in the US Army during World War II is generally considered to be a founding study in empirical sociology. The book The American Soldier (1949-1950) played a major role in the development and institutionalization of empirical social research. Joseph Ryan’s monograph Samuel Stouffer and the GI Survey (2013) analyzes the history and reception of the research and book in theUnited States. This paper goes one small step further. It investigates the reception and impact of the book far from theUnited States: inPoland. Apart from its purely descriptive value, this paper provides an analysis of the diffusion of sociological innovation

Famous and Forgotten: Soviet Sociology and the Nature of Intellectual Achievement under Totalitarianism

For decades Soviet and later post-Soviet sociology was dominated by a cohort of scholars born between 1927–1930 (Grushin, Kon, Levada, Ossipov, Yadov, Zaslavskaya). The origins of their prominence and the character of their recognition offers a puzzle as it seemingly defies conventional ideas about where academic renown comes from. Academic prominence is usually associated with either intellectual leadership or skillful manipulation of the academic power structures. Neither of these stories describes the peculiar pattern of recognition of the giants of Soviet sociology whose fame persisted after they retired from administrative responsibilities and in spite of their ideas from the Soviet era being almost forgotten. The hypothesis developed in this paper holds that this peculiar form of fame emerges from the unique position sociology held in Soviet society. The paper introduces a distinction between natural and intentional secrecy and argues that while most of Western sociology specialized in natural secrecy, Soviet sociology had to deal with intentional secrecy resulting from conscious attempts to conceal the dismal realities of state socialism. The pervasiveness of secrecy during the Soviet era resulted from the central legitimizing myth of Soviet society describing it as built following a scientifically devised plan. This legitimation allowed Soviet sociology to emerge and develop with an unparalleled speed, but, at the same time, it explains why sociology was seen as having considerable subversive potential and faced periodic repressions. This political environment accounts for Soviet sociology’s unique intellectual style as well as for the fact that its central figures remained in the disciplinary memory as heroic role models, rather than as authors of exemplary texts

Heufelder: Argentinischer Krösus

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Helmes-Hayes/Santoro (eds.): Everett Hughes

Book review: Richard C. Helmes-Hayes and Marco Santoro (eds.), The Anthem companion to Everett Hughes. London; New York, NY: Anthem Press 2016

Hess: The Political Theory of Shklar

Book review of: Hess, Andreas (2014) The Political Theory of Judith N. Shklar: Exile from Exile, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Durkheim and Hubert in Brazil

The review analyzes two Brazilian editions of classical works by Emile Durkheim and Henri Hubert, “L’individualisme et les intellectuels”(1898) and “Étude sommaire de la représentation du temps dans la religion et la magie”(1905). The review focuses on the historical research performed by the editors and places the editions in the context of Brazilian sociology. It also discusses the challenges facing the history of sociology in Brazil.

Normal Science?

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