Bessner: Democracy in Exile

Book review of: Bessner, Daniel (2018) Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.312 pp.ISBN: 9780801453038Price: $35,0

Rindzevičiūtė: Power of Systems

Book review of:  Rindzevičiūtė, Eglė. 2016. The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 2016.306 pp.ISBN: 978-1-5017-0318-8Price: $ 49.9

Der Nachhall französischer Kolonialsoziologie: Rezension zu "The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire" von George Steinmetz

George Steinmetz: The Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought: French Sociology and the Overseas Empire. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 2023. 978-0-691-23742-

Im Graubereich: Die US-amerikanischen Sozialwissenschaften im Kalten Krieg

Joy Rohde: Armed With Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research during the Cold War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 2013. 978080144967

On foreign territories: Delphi, Political Gaming, and the subcuta­neous relevance of academic tribes

Delphi and Political Gaming were the first social scientific methods to rely on expert knowledge in order to prognosticate future developments and trends. Both techniques were developed in the early 1950s at the California-based RAND Corporation. Despite this closeness, the epistemic roles of the experts differed greatly. While Delphi views experts as carriers of universal knowledge, political gaming takes a more culturalist and relativist stance towards knowledge. This historical case is used to develop a more sophisticated concept of academic tribes, which focuses on the aspect of descent and emphasizes the continuing relevance of the tribal culture for the scientist’s identity even after leaving the place of academic socialization.Delphi and Political Gaming were the first social scientific methods to rely on expert knowledge in order to prognosticate future developments and trends. Both techniques were developed in the early 1950s at the California-based RAND Corporation. Despite this closeness, the epistemic roles of the experts differed greatly. While Delphi views experts as carriers of universal knowledge, political gaming takes a more culturalist and relativist stance towards knowledge. This historical case is used to develop a more sophisticated concept of academic tribes, which focuses on the aspect of descent and emphasizes the continuing relevance of the tribal culture for the scientist’s identity even after leaving the place of academic socialization

Das DFG-Netzwerk »Soziologie soziologischen Wissens«

Das wissenschaftliche Netzwerk »Die Soziologie soziologischen Wissens« wird seit Januar 2017 für einen Zeitraum von drei Jahren von der DFG gefördert. Im Rahmen des Netzwerks sollen wissenschaftssoziologische Perspektiven auf die Soziologie erörtert, ausgeweitet und durch gemeinsame Diskussionen und Publikationen im akademischen Diskurs verankert werden. Der Beitrag in Form einer Diskussion unter den Netzwerkmitgliedern bearbeitet die Frage, worin der besondere Mehrwert liegt, die Instrumentarien der Soziologie auf sie selbst anzuwenden. The scientific network »Sociology of Sociological Knowledge« has been funded by the DFG since January 2017 for a period of three years. Within the network, sociological perspectives on sociology are to be discussed, expanded and anchored in academic discourse through joint discussions and publications. The contribution takes the form of a discussion among the network members of where the particular added value lies in applying the instruments of sociology to sociology itself

Crafting sonifications: levels of interdisciplinary exchange in group discussions and their empirical assessment

Presented at the 21st International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD2015), July 6-10, 2015, Graz, Styria, Austria.This paper proposes a methodology to empirically assess the level of cross-disciplinary collaboration. Drawing on a variety of concepts established within Science & Technology Studies (STS), it develops an operationalization of a framework developed by Michael E. Gorman. The data this methodology relies on are quantified transcripts of discussions within groups trying to collaboratively develop sonifications of given scientific data sets. The proposed methodology has been applied to data from a sonification workshop to evaluate its usability, and some results are reported

Cohen-Cole: The Open Mind

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IfS Discussion Papers / Historical Epistemology in the Historiography of the Social Sciences : Three Examples

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