Area Studies in the System of Social Sciences
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21219014 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Libman (0000-0001-8504-3007, Freie Universität Berlin, corresponding author), A M Libman |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 445-452 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Regional Research of Russia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2079-9713 • E-ISSN: 2079-9705 |
| Publisher | Pleiades Publishing Ltd (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1134/s2079970525600490 |
| OpenAlex | W4416739282 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
Interdisciplinary area studies have been the subject of criticism from mainstream social sciences in recent decades. Specialists in individual regions and countries are perceived as lacking sufficient knowledge of modern research methodology and being more focused on the interests of the humanities rather than the social sciences. At the same time, the study of individual regions and countries requires the accumulation of specific knowledge, which is highly likely to be lost in the absence of area studies communities. The article examines the main areas of criticism of area studies and existing proposals for the modernization of this research direction
Criticism · Mainstream · Modernization theory · Social studies · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Critical Realism in Sociology · World Systems and Global Transformations
Comparative Area Studies
The weirdest people in the world?
Transregional studies
Area studies, comparative area studies, and the study of politics
American Sovietology From 1917-1991
The Scientific Shortcomings of Postcolonial Theory
Ruth Benedict's Legacy of Shame
IR theory and Area Studies
The interaction of post-Sovietology and comparative politics
The comparison of the USSR and USA economies by Imemo in the 1970s
Country Studies
Geographical Coverage in Political Science Research
Branching out or inwards? The logic of fractals in Russian studies
The Return of the Single-Country Study
External Validity
The provocation of empirical evidence
The Credibility Revolution in Empirical Economics
Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics
The theory and method of comparative area studies
Causal Mechanisms in the Social Sciences
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |