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academic disciplines history
anne
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Autumn Term
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charlotte
college
Dagens Nyheter
Demarcation Lines
Die Lage Der Arbeitenden Klasse
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Erik Gustaf Geijer
Fabian Society
Foundation Board
Foundation's Series
Foundation’s Series
historical sociology
johan
Katheder Socialist
knowledge production
knut
Knut Wicksell
leffler
Licentiate Degree
Maxime Kovalevsky
National Economic Society
National Library
nineteenth-century Sweden
philanthropic reform
question
social policy development
Social Question
Social Scientific Gaze
stockholm
Stockholm University College
Stockholms Dagblad
Stockholms Enskilda Bank
Swedish Social Science
Swedish social science emergence
Thought Style
university
Vice Versa
Von Feilitzen
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Working Women's Club
Working Women’s Club
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138501942
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The social sciences have, ever since they were first established as academic disciplines, played a foundational role in most spheres of modern society - in policy-making, education, the media and public debate - and hence also, indirectly, for our self-understanding as social beings. 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 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. The Social Scientific Gaze argues that the rise of Swedish social science may be seen not only as an 'answer' to the social 'question', but also as one attempt alongside others - including contemporary social literature, the philantropic reform movement, and the introduction of modern social policy - to conceptualize, mobilize and regulate the social sphere. In this process it is furthermore shown how an ambigious yet distinct 'social scientific gaze' was discursively articulated.
Per Wisselgren is Associate Professor of Sociology, with a PhD in History of Science and Ideas, at Umeå University in Sweden. Previous books include Social Science in Context: Historical, Sociological and Global Perspectives (co-edited, 2013), Couples in Science and Politics: Intellectual Marriages in Modernity (co-edited in Swedish, 2011), and History of Participatory Media: Politics and Publics, 1750-2000 (co-edited, 2011).
