Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Shaping Human Science Disciplines pp 1–24Cite as

Palgrave Macmillan

Introduction: Shaping Disciplines—Recent Institutional Developments in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe and Beyond

  • Chapter
  • First Online:

  • 337 Accesses

Part of the book series: Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences ((SHSSHS))

Abstract

An outline of the approach of the four years-collaborative research project International Cooperation in the Social Sciences and Humanities (INTERCO-SSH) from which the book has emanated. The focus is on the changing institutional infrastructures of the social and human sciences since 1945 in eight countries of Europe and beyond. While arguing that the organizational structures of scholarly disciplines allow a more rewarding analysis than studying ideas directly, the heuristically most productive implication of the institutional perspective appears to be its openness to international and interdisciplinary comparisons. After establishing in some detail the semantic scope of the key concepts ‘discipline’ and ‘institutionalization’, the authors present the research design and selected data upon which the following chapters rest.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   109.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD   139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Notes

  1. 1.

    See e.g., the list of stakeholders participating in the production of a document released in preparation of the post-2020 programme: LAB-FAB-APP: Investing in the European future we want. Report of the independent High Level Group on maximizing the impact of EU Research & Innovation Programmes, https://ec.europa.eu/research/evaluations/pdf/archive/other_reports_studies_and_documents/hlg_2017_report.pdf, Annex 2, p. 24.

  2. 2.

    Compare Jacobs (2013), Turner (2014, 2015) with regard to developments in the USA. Both authors discuss downward turns but did not contribute much to conceptualize such events.

  3. 3.

    http://interco-ssh.eu/short-histories-of-disciplines-in-the-world/.

References

  • Abbott, Andrew. 2001. Chaos of disciplines. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Becher, Tony. 1996 [1989]. Academic tribes and territories: Intellectual enquiry and the cultures of disciplines. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Becher, Tony, and Paul R. Trowler. 2001. Academic tribes and territories: Intellectual enquiry and the culture of disciplines, 2nd ed. Buckingham: The Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Becker, Howard, and Harry E. Barnes. 1938/1961. Social thought from lore to science. New York: Dover Publications.

    Google Scholar 

  • Blaug, Mark. 1994. Not only an economist: Autobiographical reflections of a historian of economic thought. The American Economist 38 (2): 12–27.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bulmer, Martin. 1984. The Chicago school of sociology: Institutionalization, diversity, and the rise of sociological research. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Calhoun, Craig, and Jonathan Van Antwerpen. 2007. Orthodoxy, heterodoxy, and hierarchy: “Mainstream” sociology and its challengers. In Sociology in America: A history, ed. C. Calhoun, 367–410. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Camic, Charles, and Neil Gross. 2001. The new sociology of ideas. In The blackwell companion to sociology, ed. Judith R. Blau, 236–249. Blackwell companions to sociology 5. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

    Google Scholar 

  • Camic, Charles, Michèle Lamont, and Neil Gross (eds.). 2011. Social knowledge in the making. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Celarent, Barbara. 2010. Human behavior: An inventory of scientific findings, by Bernard Berelson and Gary A. Steiner. American Journal of Sociology 115: 1345–1350.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Clark, Terry N. 1973. Prophets and patrons: The French university and the emergence of the social sciences. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (“privat”).

    Google Scholar 

  • Drori, Gili S., John W. Meyer, and Hokyu Hwang. 2006. Globalization and organization: World society and organizational change. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Drori, Gili S., John W. Meyer, Francisco Ramirez, and Evan Schofer. 2003. Science in the modern world polity: Institutionalization and globalization. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Fleck, Christian, Johan Heilbron, Victor Karády, Gisèle Sapiro, et al. 2016. Handbook of indicators of institutionalization of academic disciplines in SSH. Serendipities: Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences 1 (1): 1–30 (Material). http://serendipities.uni-graz.at/index.php/serendipities/article/view/20/17.

  • Gibbons, Michael (ed.). 1994. The new production of knowledge: The dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies. London: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gieryn, Thomas F. 1999. Cultural boundaries of science: Credibility on the line. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Heilbron, Johan. 2004. Toward a historical sociology of disciplinary knowledge. In The dialogical turn: New roles for sociology in the postdisciplinary age, ed. Charles Camic and Hans Joas, 23–42. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jacobs, Jerry A. 2013. In defense of disciplines: Interdisciplinarity and specialization in the research university. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jencks, Christopher, and David Riesman. 2002 [1968]. The academic revolution, with a new introduction by Christopher Jencks. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lepenies, Wolf. 1988. Between literature and science: The rise of sociology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Levine, Donald N. 1995. Visions of the sociological tradition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Merton, Robert K. 1993 [1965]. On the shoulders of giants: A Shandean postscript. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Merton, Robert K., and Elinor G. Barber. 2004. The travels and adventures of serendipity: A study in sociological semantics and the sociology of science. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Müller, Albert (ed.). 2014. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, vol. 25.3, Die “Stämme” der Akademie – “Tribes” in Academe. Innsbruck: Studien Verlag.

    Google Scholar 

  • Nowotny, Helga, Peter Scott, and Michael Gibbons (eds.). 2001. Re-thinking science: Knowledge and the public in an age of uncertainty. Cambridge: Polity Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Oberschall, Anthony. 1972. The establishment of empirical sociology: Studies in continuity, discontinuity and institutionalization. New York and London: Harper and Row.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parsons, Talcott, and Gerald M. Platt. 1973. The American University. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Platt, Jennifer. 2002. Fifty Years of the International Social Science Research Council. Paris: International Social Science Research Council.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pooley, Jefferson. 2016. A “not particularly felicitous” phrase: A history of the “behavioral sciences” label. Serendipities: Journal for the Sociology and History of the Social Sciences 1 (1): 38–81.

    Google Scholar 

  • Robbins, Lionel. 1932. An essay on the nature & significance of economic science. London: Macmillan.

    Google Scholar 

  • Searle, John R. 2005. What is an institution? Journal of Institutional Economics 1 (1): 1–22.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Shils, Edward. 1970. Tradition, ecology, and institution in the history of sociology. Daedalus 99 (4): 760–825.

    Google Scholar 

  • Steinmetz, George (ed.). 2005. Politics, history, and culture, the politics of method in the human sciences: Positivism and its epistemological others. Durham: Duke University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stichweh, Rudolf. 1992. The sociology of scientific disciplines: On the genesis and stability of the disciplinary structure of modern science. Science in Context 5 (1): 3–15.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stocking Jr., George W. 1965. On the limits of ‘presentism’ and ‘historicism’ in the historiography of the behavioral sciences. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 1 (3): 211–218.

    Google Scholar 

  • Turner, Stephen P. 2014. American sociology: From pre-disciplinary to post-normal. Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Turner, Stephen P. 2015. Social scientists as experts and public intellectuals. In International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences, 2nd ed., ed. J.D. Wright, 695–700. Oxford: Elsevier.

    Google Scholar 

  • Turner, Stephen P., and Jonathan H. Turner. 1990. The impossible science: An institutional analysis of American sociology. Newbury Park: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wittrock, Björn. 2001. Disciplines, history of, in the social sciences. In International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences, 3721–3728. Elsevier.

    Google Scholar 

  • Worcester, Kenton W. 2001. Social Science Research Council, 1923–1998. New York: Social Science Research Council.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Christian Fleck & Matthias Duller

  2. Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

    Victor Karády

Authors
  1. Christian Fleck
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Matthias Duller
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Victor Karády
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Christian Fleck .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Christian Fleck

  2. Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Matthias Duller

  3. Department of History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

    Victor Karády

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2019 The Author(s)

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Fleck, C., Duller, M., Karády, V. (2019). Introduction: Shaping Disciplines—Recent Institutional Developments in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Europe and Beyond. In: Fleck, C., Duller, M., Karády, V. (eds) Shaping Human Science Disciplines. Socio-Historical Studies of the Social and Human Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92780-0_1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92780-0_1

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-92779-4

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-92780-0

  • eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation