The Social Scientific Gaze The Social Question and the Rise of Academic Social Science in Sweden |
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| Author:
| Wisselgren, Per |
| Series edited by:
| Hess, Andreas
McLaughlin, Neil |
| Series title: | Public Intellectuals and the Sociology of Knowledge Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4724-4761-6 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2015 |
| Publisher: | Ashgate Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
| List Price: | USD $124.95 |
Book Description:
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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 Lorén Foundation, a combined private funding agency and early research institute, which was set up in 1885 to promote the rise of Swedish...
More DescriptionThe 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 Lorén 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.