La « renaissance » de la sociologie en URSS (1958-1972).

Mespoulet, Martine

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“…Building on a longstanding debate about the extent to which scientific developments are determined by internal factors (e.g., Merton, ), external influences (e.g., Bloor, ), or a complex combination of the two (Whitley, ; Bourdieu, ; Camic & Gross, ; Camic, Gross, & Lamont, ), another research strand aims to assess the impact of political contexts, cultures, and systems—liberal democracies, colonial empires, communist regimes, postwar reconstruction, the Cold War, etc.—on the development of the social sciences ( inter alia L'Estoile, ; Mespoulet, ; Fourcade, ; Steinmetz, ). The case of the Cold War, which has been the subject of a growing body of research in recent years, shows that authors disagree about the nature of this impact.…”

Section: Introduction: Understanding the Development Of The Social Scmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Transnational Circulation of Scientific Ideas: Importing Behavioralism in European Political Science (1950–1970)

Boncourt¹

2015

J History Behavioral Science

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This article aims to deepen our understanding of the transatlantic circulation of scientific ideas during the Cold War by looking at the importation of behavioralism in European political science. It analyses the social, institutional, and intellectual dynamics that led to the creation, in 1970, of a transnational organization that aimed to promote behavioralism in Europe: the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). Using qualitative material drawn from archives and interviews, the study shows that the creation of the ECPR was the joint product of academic, scientific, and political rivalries. It argues that the founding of the organization served a purpose for several agents (chiefly, academic entrepreneurs and philanthropic foundations) who pursued different strategies in different social fields in the context of the Cold War. More broadly, it suggests that the postwar development of the social sciences and the circulation of scientific ideas are best accounted for by mapping sociological interactions between scientific fields and neighboring social spheres.

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Section: Introduction: Understanding the Development Of The Social Scmentioning

confidence: 99%