The rise of social science disciplines in France

Studies on the history and the institutionalization of sociology in France, many of them coordinated by Philippe Besnard, have developed by moving forward in time. Taking off in the 1970s with Steven Lukes’ biography of Durkheim, Victor Karady’s editions of Durkheim and Mauss and several research projects, Philippe Besnard edited the series of well known special issues of the Revue française de sociologie about sociology and related disciplines, ranging from the end of the nineteenth century ..

Las ciencias sociales como un campo global emergente

Explorando la “globalización” de las ciencias sociales, este artículo presenta primero una interpretación histórica de cómo ha evolucionado el intercambio transnacional en las ciencias sociales. Formas anteriores de circulación internacional son diferenciadas de los acuerdos más globales que han surgido desde finales del siglo XX. Considerando este campo globalizante con más detalle, se argumenta que su característica predominante es una estructura centro-periferia, con un núcleo duopolístico euro-americano, múltiples semi-periferias y una amplia gama de periferias. Centrándose en el nivel global, sin embargo, mucha de la investigación existente ha dejado de lado el surgimiento de estructuras regionales transnacionales. La formación de un campo transnacional europeo de las ciencias sociales es tomado como ejemplo de este proceso de regionalización transnacional. Las ciencias sociales en todo el mundo, por lo tanto, pueden ser vistas como una estructura de cuatro niveles. Además del nivel local y nacional, las estructuras regionales transnacionales así como las globales han adquirido creciente importancia, y una mejor comprensión de la “globalización” requiere de estudios más precisos de ambos niveles, tanto en sí mismos como en su interconectividad evolutiva.

Мораль как средство изображения человеческих характеров в произведениях французских писателей XIV века

В данной статье на широком фактическом материале рассматривается проблема морали в произведениях французских писателей XVII века (Франсуа де Ларошфуко, Блез Паскаля, Жан де ля Брюйера).Их произведения оказали значительное влияние на творчество писателей XVIII-XIX вв., а также современных писателей.У поданій статті на широкому фактичному матеріалі розглядається проблема моралі в творах французьких письменників 17 століття (Франсуа де Ларошфуко, Блез Паскаля, Жан де ля Брюйер), яка значно вплинула не тільки на творчість письменників 18-19 ст., а також і на сучасних письменників.This article, on the basis of vast factual material, deals with the problems of morals in the works of some French writers of the XVIII-th century, such as la Rochefoucauld, Pascal, la Bruy?re. Their works made a great influence on the creative work of the writers of the XVIII-XIX-th centuries and of the modern writers as well

Centre de sociologie européenne – CSE

Louis Pinto, directeur de recherche au CNRS Débats en sociologie/sociologie des débats Prenant toujours pour objectif de favoriser un regard réflexif sur la discipline sociologique, le séminaire de cette année a porté sur deux points. Le premier concernait les questions de délimitation entre psychologie et sociologie à travers les critiques adressées par Maurice Halbwachs à Émile Durkheim à propos de l’analyse du suicide. Le second point, qui a fait l’objet de la plus grande partie des séance..

Introduction to the special issue: Understanding the Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe

Introduction to the special issue of Serendipities on “The Social Sciences and Humanities in the European Research Area

Indicators of the Internationalization of the Social Sciences and Humanities

This contribution, which is part of the collaborative European research project INTERCOSSH, presents indicators for studying the internationalization of the social and human sciences. Five dimensions are distinguished and for each one of them various indicators are presented. Although neither the dimensions nor the indicators are exhaustive, they capture some of the most significant aspects of internationalization. They pertain to international scholarly associations, international scholarly journals, the flows and meanings of book translations, transnational authorship, and policies of internationalization. In addition to these dimensions, three particular areas of inquiry are presented: changing relations between the North and the South, between Western and Eastern Europe, and between the West and Asia

Avoiding dynastic, assortative mating, and population stratification biases in Mendelian randomization through within-family analyses.

Estimates from Mendelian randomization studies of unrelated individuals can be biased due to uncontrolled confounding from familial effects. Here we describe methods for within-family Mendelian randomization analyses and use simulation studies to show that family-based analyses can reduce such biases. We illustrate empirically how familial effects can affect estimates using data from 61,008 siblings from the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study and UK Biobank and replicated our findings using 222,368 siblings from 23andMe. Both Mendelian randomization estimates using unrelated individuals and within family methods reproduced established effects of lower BMI reducing risk of diabetes and high blood pressure. However, while Mendelian randomization estimates from samples of unrelated individuals suggested that taller height and lower BMI increase educational attainment, these effects were strongly attenuated in within-family Mendelian randomization analyses. Our findings indicate the necessity of controlling for population structure and familial effects in Mendelian randomization studies