This book presents an analysis of the institutional development of selected social science and humanities (SSH) disciplines in Argentina, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Where most narratives of a scholarly past are presented as a succession of ‘ideas,’ research results and theories, this collection highlights the structural shifts in the systems of higher education, as well as institutions of research and innovation (beyond the universities) within which these disciplines have developed. This institutional perspective will facilitate systematic comparisons between developments in various disciplines and countries. Across eight country studies the book reveals remarkably different dynamics of disciplinary growth between countries, as well as important interdisciplinary differences within countries. In addition, instances of institutional contractions and downturns and veritable breaks of continuity under authoritarian political regimes can be observed, which are almost totally absent from narratives of individual disciplinary histories. This important work will provide a valuable resource to scholars of disciplinary history, the history of ideas, the sociology of education and of scientific knowledge.
Author(s): Christian Fleck
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 411
Tags: Human Science Disciples
Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
Introduction: Shaping Disciplines—Recent Institutional Developments in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe and Beyond (Christian Fleck, Matthias Duller, Victor Karády)....Pages 1-24
The Rise of the Social Sciences and Humanities in France: Institutionalization, Professionalization, and Autonomization (Gisèle Sapiro, Eric Brun, Clarisse Fordant)....Pages 25-68
Germany: After the Mandarins (Matthias Duller, Christian Fleck, Rafael Y. Schögler)....Pages 69-109
The Post-war Institutional Development of the SSH in the UK (Marcus Morgan)....Pages 111-145
Discipline and (Academic) Tribe: Humanities and the Social Sciences in Italy (Barbara Grüning, Marco Santoro, Andrea Gallelli)....Pages 147-188
The Institutionalization of SSH Disciplines in the Netherlands: 1945–2015 (Rob Timans, Johan Heilbron)....Pages 189-246
A Reversed Order: Expansion and Differentiation of Social Sciences and Humanities in Sweden 1945–2015 (Tobias Dalberg, Mikael Börjesson, Donald Broady)....Pages 247-287
Institutionalization and Professionalization of the Social Sciences in Hungary Since 1945 (Victor Karády, Peter Tibor Nagy)....Pages 289-325
Arduous Institutionalization in Argentina’s SSH: Expansion, Asymmetries and Segmented Circuits of Recognition (Fernanda Beigel, Gustavo Sorá)....Pages 327-360
Concluding Remarks (Christian Fleck, Matthias Duller, Victor Karády)....Pages 361-384
Back Matter ....Pages 385-396
