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The Structural Change of Knowledge and the Future of the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
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The Structural Change of Knowledge and the Future of the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
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This book is a compendium of pragmatism in the social sciences.
While addressing several distinct spheres, it carries a common
message: the future of the social sciences depends on a shared
understanding of society based on the knowledge of various
disciplines and transcending the currently forbidding borders
between scientific knowledge and the other forms of knowledge.
Looking back at the social science traditions this is nothing new.
To ensure a fruitful future for the social sciences a paradigm
shift is unavoidable. The consequence of the increase of knowledge
in the last two centuries was the specialization of the sciences.
The nineteenth century saw the separation of humanities and social
sciences; the twentieth century is even characterized by
specialization within the disciplines and the occurrence of
competing schools of thought. This book tries to overcome the
barriers that are built between and within the disciplines, and to
counteract the unnecessary barriers created by the emergence of
"schools of thoughts" that distrust each other and the social
sciences as a whole. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science
Research.
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