6 How Sociology Shaped Postwar Poland and How Stalinization Shaped Sociology

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Introduction: Toward a Social Science of the Social Sciences 1
4. Part one. Disciplines in the making
5. 1 Concept-Quake: From the History of Science to the Historical Sociology of Social Science 21
6. 2 Spaces of Real Possibilities: Counterfactuals and the Impact of Donors on the Social Sciences 81
7. 3 The Social Life of Concepts: or, How to Study the Idea of Creativity? 107
8. 4 Epistemological Crises in Legal Theory: The (Ir)Rationality of Balancing 129
9. 5 The Reinvention of Sociology: Into the Trenches of Fieldwork at the Time of the Algerian Liberation War 147
10. Part two. From the national to the global
11. 6 How Sociology Shaped Postwar Poland and How Stalinization Shaped Sociology 175
12. 7 The Public Anthropology of Violence in India 195
13. 8 Challenging Objectivity in Japan’s Long 1968 218
14. 9 How Political Commitment Delineates Social Scientific Knowledge 240
15. 10 Making Sense of Globalizing Social Science 262
16. Part three. Exploring borders and boundaries
17. 11 Critical Humanities and the Unsettling of the Sociological Field: Is There a French Exception? 287
18. 12 Recovering Subalternity in the Humanities and Social Sciences 310
19. 13 Thinking about Cognitive Scientists Thinking about Religion 328
20. 14 Cooperative Primates and Competitive Primatologists: Prosociality and Polemics in a Nonhuman Social Science 351
21. 15 The Rise and Rise of Posthumanism: Will It Spell the End of the Human Sciences? 368
22. Contributors 393
23. Index 397