Bjorn Wittrock
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 290342 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Bjorn Wittrock |
| PRENOMES | Bjorn |
| SOBRENOME | Wittrock |
| ASSINATURA | WITTROCK B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stockholm University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 122 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 12 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1972 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Nordic Paths to Modernity
Within the growing attention to the diverse forms and trajectories of modern societies, the Nordic countries are now widely seen as a distinctive and instructive case. While discussions have centred on the 'Nordic model' of the welfare state and its record of adaptation to the changing global environment of the late twentieth century, this volume's focus goes beyond these themes. The guiding principle here is that a long-term historical-sociologi…
Social Science at the Crossroads
The 38th World Congress of IIS addressed some of the most fundamental issues of sociological inquiry in light of global processes and the development of different fields of knowledge: What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of social as opposed to natural processes? How do efforts to map the social and political world interact with that world and with traditional sociological practices? What can we say about relationships between scient…
Early Modernities
This chapter represents a sustained effort to overcome the limitations, presenting empirical materials that make it possible to think comparatively and historically about the ways in which different modernities took shape in cultural and institutional terms. The first transition in Europe concerns the emergence of institutional pluralism in the wake of the Papal, the Feudal, the Urban, and the Intellectual Revolutions of the twelfth and thirteent…
Public Spheres & Collective Identities
Social Science and the Building of the Early Welfare State
3. Social Science and the Building of the Early Welfare State: Toward a Comparison of Statist and Non-Statist Western Societies was published in States, Social Knowledge, and the Origins of Modern Social Policies on page 90.
Social Science and the Building of the Early Welfare State
The Axial Age in world history
The Cambridge World History
From 1200 BCE to 900 CE, the world witnessed the rise of powerful new states and empires, as well as networks of cross-cultural exchange and conquest. Considering the formation and expansion of these large-scale entities, this fourth volume of The Cambridge World History outlines key economic, political, social, cultural, and intellectual developments that occurred across the globe in this period. Leading scholars examine critical transformations…
The Cambridge World History
Volume 5 of the Cambridge World History series uncovers the cross-cultural exchange and conquest, and the accompanying growth of regional and trans-regional states, religions, and economic systems, during the period 500 to 1500 CE. The volume begins by outlining a series of core issues and processes across the world, including human relations with nature, gender and family, social hierarchies, education, and warfare. Further essays examine mariti…
Understanding a Divide
Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity
The Axial Age in Global History
The Axial Age in Global History
Nordic Paths to Modernity
Within the growing attention to the diverse forms and trajectories of modern societies, the Nordic countries are now widely seen as a distinctive and instructive case. While discussions have centred on the ‘Nordic model’ of the welfare state and its record of adaptation to the changing global environment of the late twentieth century, this volume’s focus goes beyond these themes. The guiding principle here is that a long-term historical-sociologi…
Talsstudier Och Vetenskapsutveckling
In the first part of the essay, three profiles of scholarly engagement are discerned. In the oeuvre of Marie-Christine Skuncke two of these types of engagement are prominent, namely those that pertain to a widening of a scholarly field and an opening up of conceptually new fields of investigation and imagination. Her career encompasses studies of literary forms of expressiveness, in particular in opera and theatre, which she links to studies of r…
The Benefit of Broad Horizons
More than perhaps anybody else in the world, the Swedish political scientist and sociologist Björn Wittrock has contributed - both on the intellectual and institutional level - to making a truly global social science possible. This volume contains contributions from twenty-six world-renowned scholars who address different aspects of his ambitious research program as well as current trends in the institutionalization of the social and human scienc…
Frontiers of Sociology
Introduction
Since its foundation in 1893 the International Institute of Sociology (IIS) has played an important and at times crucial role in the international world of social science. In recent years the IIS has increasingly come to play a role analogous to that of its early years. World Congresses of the IIS have highlighted dilemmas of human existence and societal institutions amidst processes of globalization, cooperation and violent conflict. The 37th Wo…
Frontiers of Sociology
The 37th World Congress of the IIS focused on theory and research at the forefront of sociology and the relationship between sociology and its neighbouring disciplines. This volume constitutes a sustained effort by prominent sociologists and other social scientists to assess the current standing of sociology. It is a stocktaking of the unique nature of sociology in the light of advances within the discipline itself and within a range of neighbour…
States, Institutions, and Discourses
Analyzing Social Science
Civilizations in Dispute
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Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture
Index
Methods in Futures Studies
Axial Civilizations and World History
The overarching theme of the book is the historical meaning of the Axial Age, commonly defined as a period of several centuries around the middle of the last millennium BCE, and its cultural innovations. The civilizational patterns that grew out of this exceptionally creative phase are a particularly rewarding theme for comparative analysis. The book contains essays on cultural transformations in Ancient Greece, Ancient Israel, Iran, India and Ch…
Discourses on Society
The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity. Conceptual Change in Context, 1750-1850
The rise of the social sciences and the formation of modernity : conceptual change in context, 1750-1850
Implementation Beyond Hierarchy
Implementation analyses have increasingly gone beyond the study of the working of well‐defined bureaucratic hierarchies. The key role played by informally coordinated clusters or complexes of different organizations, so‐called implementation structures, has instead been emphasized. This article on a major programme for energy research and development in Sweden agrees with the thrust of this latter approach. However, three substantial reformulatio…
Frontiers of Sociology
The 37th World Congress of the IIS focused on theory and research at the forefront of sociology and the relationship between sociology and its neighbouring disciplines. This volume constitutes a sustained effort by prominent sociologists and other social scientists to assess the current standing of sociology. It is a stocktaking of the unique nature of sociology in the light of advances within the discipline itself and within a range of neighbour…
Science policy and the challenge to the welfare state
The future of the Scandinavian model of a welfare state hinges upon the capacity of these nations to promote and to tap the resources of science and technology; this is a prerequisite for policy innovation in a low growth economy and for industrial innovation in an increasingly competitive international environment. In this paper the emergence and evolution of science policies in Scandinavia is outlined. Present dilemmas of these policies are tra…
Policy as a Moving Target
Since the early 1970s, policy scholars have paid great attention to issues of policy implementation, treating it as the "missing link" between policy formulation and results. Most often, policy problems have been seen as static phenomena that can be corrected by carefully specified programs. This paper, drawing upon examples from Swedish energy policy, argues that this is not the case, that political and social conditions are so prone to change t…
Social Theory and Global History
In the course of their disciplinary consolidation during the 19th and 20th centuries, the social sciences came increasingly to be less historically orientated. Analogously, global history became increasingly a marginal concern for professional historical scholarship. At the present juncture, however, there is a coincidence of a rethinking of the formation of modernity in cultural terms and the need to locate European modernity in a global context…
The Making of Sweden
In the first millennium CE trade and kinship networks linked Western Europe and Central Asia via Scandinavia and the Russian rivers. These networks broke down when the early states began to emerge in Scandinavia during the 11th and 12th centuries, concurrent with the Christianization of the far North. Two cultural fault-lines mark Nordic history - between Western and Eastern Christendom and between feudal and non-feudal societies - and make this …
Futures studies and policy analysis in the political process
Sweden's secretariat
A Technique for Structural Content Analysis of Party Propaganda
A Technique for Structural Content Analysis of Party Propaganda
Sweden's secretariat
Futures studies and policy analysis in the political process
Science policy and the challenge to the welfare state
The future of the Scandinavian model of a welfare state hinges upon the capacity of these nations to promote and to tap the resources of science and technology; this is a prerequisite for policy innovation in a low growth economy and for industrial innovation in an increasingly competitive international environment. In this paper the emergence and evolution of science policies in Scandinavia is outlined. Present dilemmas of these policies are tra…
Social Knowledge, Public Policy and Social Betterment
Implementation Beyond Hierarchy
Implementation analyses have increasingly gone beyond the study of the working of well‐defined bureaucratic hierarchies. The key role played by informally coordinated clusters or complexes of different organizations, so‐called implementation structures, has instead been emphasized. This article on a major programme for energy research and development in Sweden agrees with the thrust of this latter approach. However, three substantial reformulatio…
Methods in Future Studies
Policy as a Moving Target
Since the early 1970s, policy scholars have paid great attention to issues of policy implementation, treating it as the "missing link" between policy formulation and results. Most often, policy problems have been seen as static phenomena that can be corrected by carefully specified programs. This paper, drawing upon examples from Swedish energy policy, argues that this is not the case, that political and social conditions are so prone to change t…
The Theory and Methodology Programme of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences
The Theory and Methodology Programme of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences the Theory and Methodology Program
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences the Theory and Methodology Program
The policy orientation
The social sciences came into being as part of the modernization of Western societies in the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the start they were preoccupied with the far-reaching effects of the transformation of traditional societies into modern ones. Their focus was on key features of the transformation. The ‘social question’, the rationalization of the world (in German debate captured by the term ‘die Moderne’), dev…
Social knowledge and public policy
The coming of modernity in the emerging industrial civilizations and nation-states of the nineteenth century entailed new forms of understanding of societal reality (see Wittrock et al., chapter 2 in this volume). Some older forms of such understanding were being transformed and renewed in the so-called marginalist revolution in political economy and in the ensuing neoclassical synthesis. Other forms of discourse – such as major parts of the mora…
Social Sciences and Modern States
Modern social sciences have been committed to the improvement of public policy. However, doubts have arisen about the possibility and desirability of a policy-oriented social science. In this book, leading specialists in the field analyse both the development and failings of policy-oriented social science. In contrast to other writings on the subject, this volume presents a distinctively historical and comparative approach. By looking at earlier …
Discourses on Society
Discourses on Society
The and Episteme of Discourses on Society.- Analyzing Social Science: On the Possibility of a Sociology of the Social Sciences.- Knowledge for Certainty: Poverty, Welfare Institutions and the Institutionalization of Social Science.- National Profiles In a Long-Term Perspective.- The Social Disciplines: The American Model.- The Tripartite Division of French Social Science: A Long-Term Perspective.- Science and Politics as a Political Factor: Germa…
Polity, economy and knowledge in the age of modernity in Europe
The European and American University since 1800; Historical and Sociological Essays
The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity
The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity
The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity. Conceptual Change in Context, 1750-1850
The rise of the social sciences and the formation of modernity : conceptual change in context, 1750-1850
Discipline Formation in the Social Sciences
Political Theory, History of
Social Theory and Global History
In the course of their disciplinary consolidation during the 19th and 20th centuries, the social sciences came increasingly to be less historically orientated. Analogously, global history became increasingly a marginal concern for professional historical scholarship. At the present juncture, however, there is a coincidence of a rethinking of the formation of modernity in cultural terms and the need to locate European modernity in a global context…
History, War and the Transcendence of Modernity
How can the relative inability of social theory to shed light on the horrors of the late twentieth century be reconciled with the fact that both history and social science earlier devoted themselves to arriving at an understanding of war and violence in the modern world? An answer is provided in five steps. First, the disciplinary evolution of the social science disciplines tends to make them oblivious of important parts of their own heritage and…
Sociology and the Critical Reflexivity of Modernity
A sense of the contingency of human, finite existence, reflections on its temporal embeddedness and on the possibility to act, to bring about other states of affairs in the world, i.e. what has sometimes been labeled the reflexivity of modernity, are not phenomena that appear only in the epoch of modernity. However, they become articulated in a distinctly new way, at the turn of the 18th century, one in which categories of the social and new noti…
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