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The Social Scientific Gaze - The Social Question and the Rise of Academic Social Science in Sweden (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Social Scientific Gaze - The Social Question and the Rise of Academic Social Science in Sweden (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge
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The social sciences have, ever since they were first established as
academic disciplines, played a foundational role in most spheres of
modern society - in policy-making, education, the media and public
debate - and hence also, indirectly, for our self-understanding as
social beings. The Social Scientific Gaze examines the discursive
formation of academic social science in the historical context of
the 'social question', that is, the protracted and wide-ranging
discussions on the social problems of modernity that were being
debated with increased intensity during the nineteenth century.
Empirically, the study focuses on the Loren Foundation, a combined
private funding agency and early research institute, which was set
up in 1885 to promote the rise of Swedish social science and to
investigate the social question. Comprising an heuristic case, the
close analysis of the Foundation makes it possible not only to
reconstruct its basic ideas and practices, but also to situate its
activities in broader historical and sociological context. The
Social Scientific Gaze argues that the rise of Swedish social
science may be seen not only as an 'answer' to the social
'question', but also as one attempt alongside others - including
contemporary social literature, the philantropic reform movement,
and the introduction of modern social policy - to conceptualize,
mobilize and regulate the social sphere. In this process it is
furthermore shown how an ambigious yet distinct 'social scientific
gaze' was discursively articulated.
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